- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (Feb 3 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0192755307
- ISBN-13: 978-0192755308
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #527,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Travel to Skagen and find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life, Marianne! Promise!' Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen-the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. The journey will be long-and dangerous for a young girl travelling alone. As Marianne boards the fishing boat that will carry her across the North Sea, she wonders: will Denmark be the fairy-tale land she has dreamt of? Will she find happiness there? Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child? And why didn't he return for her mother, as he promised he would?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!,
This review is from: Between Two Seas (Paperback)
When Marianne's mother dies she would be alone in the world except that her mother urged her to go to Denmark and find her father. So she goes, an unusual trip in the late 1800s, by herself, to a country where she doesn't even speak the language. When she arrives in Skagen, she finds she has been on a wild goose chase and there is no Lars Christensen anymore. And now she has no money. So struggling to manage on her own brings her into contact with many of the local people and she begins to feel at home there, with real friends and even a budding romance.
It is a great story with a lot of real feeling and characters you can sympathize with. It is an unusual setting and the first book I have read about 19th century Denmark. Good job Marie-Louise Jensen! I hope she writes more about Denmark, it is virgin territory for YA Historical Fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Between Two Seas (Paperback)
I got this book from the UK and I absolutely loved it. It is a gentle story but very visual and compelling. It is the story of a fifteen year old girl going to find out about her heritage in Denmark - a coming of age book and a love story. There is also adventure and danger and a very unusual setting.
I would really recommend this book for teenagers and adults.
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