Isabelle Holland Livres
16 juin 1920 – 9 février 2002
Isabelle C. Holland était une auteure prolifique dont le vaste corpus d'œuvres couvrait des romans gothiques, des mystères pour adultes et des thrillers romantiques. Elle s'est également consacrée à l'écriture pour enfants et jeunes adultes, faisant ainsi appel à un large public de lecteurs. Ses récits abordaient souvent des thèmes complexes et sensibles, certaines œuvres traitant d'allégations de pédophilie, conférant à son écriture profondeur et pouvoir provocateur. Holland a démontré une remarquable capacité à captiver divers publics grâce à son style distinctif et à sa narration.
The Journey Home
- 10pages
- 1 heure de lecture
This timeless story of homelessness introduces two sisters traveling on the orphan train West, fighting to stay together and find a place where they belong.
Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face... "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him...." Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love.
