I’d say in the end, I felt for Ty, a lot even, but I didn’t get Stolkholm Syndrome. It took me only a few hours to get through and really keeps you turning the pages. You really do see that in a messed up way, he did think he was saving her by abducting her. Lucy has written several other novels for young people, was the director of the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. Printz Honor Book, won a 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Book Award, and received the UK’s Branford Boase Award. Born in Wales but having grown up in Australia, Christopher later returned to the UK and currently lives on the edge of the woods in Monmouthshire. It is a relentless account of ruptures in so many Americans. Inspired by her fascination with wild places and the teen psyche, The Killing Woods is Christopher’s third novel. Anya Kamenetz’s book The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now hauled me back to that time. Its not a romance, there is no sex or rape or anything sexual in the story. Lucy Christopher is a British-Australian writer, whose first YA novel Stolen was a Michael L. Her second novel, Flyaway, was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Its very descriptive and paints a vivid picture in your mind of the desolate Australian outback. You go through seeing her deal with the abduction happening, and trying to sort what to do in her predicament, and how she feels about her abductor, Ty. It really gets you inside the mind of the abductee, Gemma. I wish there had been a little bit more to the story. And I found the ending a little anti-climactic. The narrator reads both Ty and Gemmas voices, and she does it well. It has a very easy, fast flowing writing style to it.īut it didn’t really evoke any strong emotions in me though – no smiling or tears either while I was reading despite being quite riveted to the story. I read the Recorded Books audiobook narrated by Emily Gray.

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