![]() ![]() For me, once I got into the rhythm, the narration took on the natural flow of Silvie's thoughts and, in this instance, I liked it better than if the dialogue had been delineated in the traditional way. ![]() The style of writing has be off-putting to some as there are no quotation marks to indicate when someone else is talking. It might have been merely symbolic or considered powerful magic. It was a palisade with ancestral skulls arranged across the top facing the enemy. The ghost wall of the title is the last ditch defense of native Britons against the Roman invasion. Their encampment is somewhere north of Hadrian's Wall and near the coast. ![]() With them are a professor and three students who are part of an Experimental Archaeology project. She, along with her father, Bill, and mother Alison, are re-enacting an Iron Age British settlement. The Ghost Wall is a first person narrative from the viewpoint of a 17 year old young woman, Sulevia, commonly called Sil or Silvie, looking back on the events of a past summer. It reflects the story very well and in an imaginative way. It took me two tries to get into it but I'm glad I did as by the end I was totally engrossed in the story. I'd forgotten all about it and even why I thought I wanted to read it. This is a curious little book (only 132 pages) that popped to the top of my library queue recently. ![]()
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