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BOOK NEWS: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

6th September 2011 by Sarah 3 Comments

I read a lot of YA fiction. This could be described as arrested development, but I prefer to see it as a sign of a flexible, youthful mind. Stop sniggering at the back.

One of my favourite YA authors is Maureen Johnson. She’s funny, clever, inventive, and writes wonderful, quirky-but-always-real characters. Her latest book, The Name of the Star, is out at the end of the month and it sounds rather good. Here’s the blurb:

Sixteen-year-old American girl Rory has just arrived at boarding school in London when a Jack the Ripper copycat-killer begins terrorising the city. All the hallmarks of his infamous murders are frighteningly present, but there are few clues to the killer’s identity.

“Rippermania” grabs hold of modern-day London, and the police are stumped with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. In an unknown city with few friends to turn to, Rory makes a chilling discovery…

Could the copycat murderer really be Jack the Ripper back from the grave?

If that sounds like your kind of thing,  read the first 70 pages for free (legally) here.

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  1. Keris says

    6th September 2011 at 11:45 am

    I’ve got a copy if you’d like it. Will send it if I ever get around to sending the Evanovich… 🙂

    Reply
  2. Sarah says

    6th September 2011 at 12:14 pm

    Ooh, I would ADORE that! Thanks,lovely! x

    Reply

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  1. World Book Day 2012: What are you doing? « Sarah Painter says:
    1st March 2012 at 1:25 pm

    […] yourself a copy of Maureen Johnson’s fabulous The Name of the Star. I blethered about it here, but now (thanks to a special World Book Day promotion) you can nab a copy for a quid. That’s […]

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