Rose Campion and
the Stolen Secret by
Lyn Gardner (Nosy Crow/Allen & Unwin)
PB RRP $14.99
ISBN 9780857634863
Reviewed by Anastasia Gonis
Rose is a girl full of life, love of adventure, and
spontaneity. She is compassionate and loving.
Abandoned at the stage door of Campion’s Palace of Varieties as a baby,
Thomas Campion has raised and loved her as his own child.
Rose adores Thomas, but secretly yearns to learn who
her mother was and where she came from.
But Campion’s is a place ‘full of people with
secrets’. All are aware that knowledge is a dangerous thing; that life can be
snuffed out quickly when people know or reveal too much.
When the generous-hearted Rose allows Effie and
Aurora, girls with deep and complex secrets of their own, into her life, there
are incredible happenings, and astonishing links are revealed.
I loved this book! It is riveting reading;
stimulating, exciting and imaginative. There is a strong storyline full of
continuous mystery which holds the reader’s interest every second. The excellent
characters and the secrets they hold, are wound together tightly with past
events that are even more thrilling and macabre than the current events they
are experiencing. Stories are linked to sub-stories in a continuous chain of
involvement.
This brilliant novel shows how our circumstances
don’t always reflect who we are, and in order to survive, how frequently life
forces us to do things that are against our nature.
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