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|pages=512

|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd

|date=October 2006

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I must sound as though I'm very impressed with the book, but I do have a reservation and that to do with the pace of the book. The writing is good and there's a real ear for dialogue but for the first part of the book I really wondered where it was going. I could easily have put it down and left it. Sometimes I had to persuade myself to keep reading. Then I got to the second half of the book and I found it impossible to put down. It's a delicate balancing act between pace and character development and I don't think that it was entirely successful in this book. I will be looking out for John Boyne's work in future though as this was a good story and the final part of this book will stay in my mind for a long time.

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