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Hearn, Julie
3 Reviews
(2)
YA
In 1913, Hazel is sent to live on her grandparents' Caribbean plantation. There she discovers secrets about the entanglement of her family's wealth with slavery. Through dense, piquant prose, Hearn provides an arresting evocation of a time and place of great upheaval. Hazel--bright, naive, passionate--is a character well worth getting to know.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2009
(2)
YA
Five-year-old Victorian slum denizen Ivy acts as a shill. When we next meet her, she's fifteen and addicted to laudanum. A "stunner," she's hired as an artist's model. Bobbing-and-weaving storytelling ensues, including a plot to dispatch Ivy and an unexpected reunion. Hearn keeps readers engrossed as they journey with Ivy from doped-up sleepwalker to young woman with a self-selected future.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2008
(1)
YA
In 1645 England, Grace, a Puritan minister's selfish older daughter, is with child from trysts with the blacksmith's son. Nell, the cunning woman's granddaughter, refuses to help Grace end her pregnancy; so begins Grace's deceit--staying abed, spitting pins, crying out about imps and crows--ending in tragedy. Hearn straddles the line between the supernatural and the concrete realm of human passions and weaknesses.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2005
3 reviews
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