![]() ![]() But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller, part family drama, this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints, in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie - a mysterious character in its own right. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she's shocked to find someone already living there - Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside: a dead bird, a snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she's glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. Tim Wynne-Jones is the accomplished author of numerous YA novels, including Blink & Caution, winner of the 2012 Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, and The Uninvited, short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award. ![]() ![]() Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. The story is genuinely scary, as Wynne-Jones evokes both the beauty and the potential violence of country life. But its dead-on, quirky dialogue and big messy issues should attract a wide readership from Grade 9 up. Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage. The Uninvited is none of these: it is instead the kind of engaging, evocative, nuanced book that has won Wynne-Jones numerous awards. ![]()
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