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Summary: Reads like a short story
Review: This is an excellent first book for Ben Rice. It's both beach reading and intellectually stimulating, with the simplicity of words and narrative. It's fantastic without being unbelievably so. And at the end, the author made me believe the story can really happen. I'd stretch my suspended disbelief and look forward to reading more of Rice's work.
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Summary: Lovely tale of belief
Review: This lovely novella tells the story of Kellyanne Williamson's love for her imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, and how her brother exhibits his love for her after these *friends* are lost. Despite his exasperation with his sister's behavior, Ashmol does his best to find her invisible friends and to help her recover from her mysterious but desperate illness.Although small in size, this book gives the reader a great deal of information about Australia and about opal mining, using authentic vocabulary and the artless, wry, and down-to-earth voice of the young Ashmol. This young man is wise beyond his years in the way of life lived in the opal-mining area of Lightning Ridge. His voice was a refreshing change from many contemporary angst-ridden narrators.
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