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Chargement... The Thursday Kidnapping (1963)par Antonia Forest
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One day the Ramsay children were left to look after the baby, Bart. Through a series of misunderstandings the baby is left in his pram outside the library. When the children come out, the pram and the baby have vanished. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I am not entirely sure why, but it has taken me quite a long while to read this book. It has been on my "currently reading" shelf since September 2021, and I have picked it up, started it, and then put it down, countless times. It's not that the book held no interest—the opening, in which we meet Ellen, and then Kathy and the Ramsay family are introduced, is engaging enough—but somehow I could never seem to proceed beyond the first few chapters. In any case, now that I have finally read it, I can say that it is not the equal of Antonio Forest's other books, but is still fairly engrossing. Forest does a good job capturing the emotional turmoil of her characters, who (unlike the reader) have no idea that Bart is mostly safe in Kathy's keeping. Kathy herself is quite the character. I'm not sure if we're meant to feel badly for her—Ellen clearly does, at some points—but she struck me as seriously damaged, psychologically speaking. Perhaps even psychopathic, from the way Forest described her thinking. The almost cold-blooded way she approached people, calculating how to make them like her, and then becoming enraged when they didn't, was very disturbing to read. I don't think this was intentional on the author's part, as I think she meant for the reader to think the character's flaws were owing to her unfortunate family life, but I came away with the impression of a very disturbed person.
In any case, leaving Kathy aside, I ended up enjoying The Thursday Kidnapping well enough, and am glad to have finally read it, as it was the last of Antonia Forest's thirteen children's novels I had yet to read. That said, I am not sure that I strongly recommend it, save to those who are fans of the author, and are (like me) completists. ( )