6/27/2023 0 Comments The changeover by margaret mahy![]() ![]() Mahy keeps everyone and everything far more unique and intriguing than all that. Sorenson, also known as Sorry, is otherworldly, but this teen romance doesn’t fall into the typical dark, brooding but alluring cliché that others have since exhausted. There is a timelessness to this dark but touching novel, in which a young woman finds herself approaching the unapproachable Sorenson Carlisle, a boy she knows is different and the only one who will believe her story something is sucking the life from her little brother. ![]() Written in 1984, and set in New Zealand, the author’s hometown, this young adult novel might be in the unfortunate circumstance of being unapproachable to current readers. ![]() But even as she tries to stop the bad feeling from coming to fruition, she finds her little brother falling into the clutches of a terrible presence in The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. Laura Chant has subtle gifts, visions that warn her of things to come, and she has taken to listening to those ‘feelings’. There had been others: the day her father left home, the day she met Sorensen – the boy with the strange silver eyes…. Laura felt it when she looked in the mirror that morning. It was the hand of terror, nothing less.’ ![]() ‘A clammy hand pressed Laura down onto her knees beside Jacko’s bed. ![]()
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