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Elizabeth Pulford

Autor de Broken

53 Obras 294 Miembros 18 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Elizabeth Pulford was born in Canada during the Second World War. At Secondary School she learned how to become a shorthand typist. At nineteen she packed her bags and left Dunedin with a girl friend to travel the world and make her fortune. She never did make the fortune, but she did travel. mostrar más England, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland and other places as well. Some of the more interesting jobs she landed while travelling was working for The Save-the-Children Fund in the head office in London and Sotheby's, the famous auction house. Eventually she married and moved to New Zealand and began to write. She started with articles and short stories and began winning competitions. She soon started writing for children which lead to her success. Her book Finding Monkey Moon made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Elizabeth Pulford

Broken (2012) 45 copias
Seeking an Aurora (2021) 31 copias
Tussock (2010) 14 copias
Finding Monkey Moon (2015) 13 copias
Call of the Cruins (2000) 12 copias
Sanspell (2015) 11 copias
Sea dreamer (2007) 10 copias
Far, far from home (2012) 9 copias
Shut the Gate (2006) 8 copias
Billy Brown's Cat (2012) 7 copias
Blackthorn (2008) 7 copias
Penny's Place (Gear Up) (2003) 7 copias
Lily Goes Skitter Skating (2011) 6 copias
Lily Has A Secret (2011) 6 copias
Can't catch me (2005) 5 copias
Lily Gets Her Wings (2011) 5 copias
Sew a toy (1979) 4 copias
Pete Paints a Picture (1999) 4 copias
Castello Italiano (2004) 3 copias
Lily chases lost dreams (2012) 3 copias
My Sister Is Magic (1994) 3 copias
The Sunflower Tree (2007) 3 copias
The memory tree (1996) 2 copias
Castlecliff (2008) 2 copias
Daisy Doll (2004) 1 copia
I'm going to the moon (2007) 1 copia
The Train (2003) 1 copia
Mr. Potter's Plums (2010) 1 copia
Jellylegs (2000) 1 copia
On a rabbit hunt (2009) 1 copia
Famous (2007) 1 copia
A Good Woman (2015) 1 copia
The Midnight Feast (1996) 1 copia
Lily (2012) 1 copia
Mrs Begg's Beautiful Egg (2006) 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1943
Género
female
Nacionalidad
New Zealand
Lugar de nacimiento
Canada
Lugares de residencia
Dunedin, New Zealand
Waikouaiti, New Zealand
Ocupaciones
children's book author

Miembros

Reseñas

Representation: N/A?
Trigger warnings: Grief and loss depiction, death of a grandmother, death of a brother, motorbike crash
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Score: Four points out of ten.

After reading an underwhelming realistic book I was hoping that I would enjoy this one, I didn't and turns out as you've guessed by the rating of this, it's even worse than the last one, I had so many issues and could not like this book at all, where do I even begin. It starts off with the main character Zara Wilson who was on a motorbike with her brother Jem when he crashed into a tree to avoid a toddler, killing him and knocking Zara out and there's the first problems: the beginning of this is similar to the last book and it suffers from the same issues, "sighs". Soon enough I find myself inside Zara's subconscious and then she goes into a comic??? I don't get it since this would be a more fantasy aspect but the library put this wrongly I might add into the realistic section. In the comic, she is all alone at first but then there are some other characters like Trace, Jem, Dark Eagle and the antagonist Morven and all of them I just couldn't connect to which was tantamount to the last book. She is in this world for quite a while when the story just confuses me, it switches between not one, not two, but three points of view which are Zara's, Zara in the past and the outside world which was hard to wrap my head around. In the end, I think Zara leaves the comic and recovers ending this on a high note.… (más)
 
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Law_Books600 | 3 reseñas más. | Nov 3, 2023 |
Gorgeous pastel illustrations and a beautifully written story. Loved it! Seeing an aurora has been on the top of my life goals for simply ages.
 
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Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | otra reseña | Feb 14, 2023 |
Note: I accessed digital review copies of this book through NetGalley and Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | otra reseña | Sep 15, 2022 |
"Broken" is an interesting and uniquely presented book about Zara who has to accept her past before she can accept the future. Zara remains in a coma after a motorbike accident which kills her brother. While she can hear her family and friends talking to her, pleading that she return to them, she finds herself in her brother's favourtie comic, looking for Jem. The book is a mixture of story, scraps of newspaper articles, flashbacks and comic illustrations, but it is difficult to really empathise with Zara who remains unconscious until the very end. In fact my favourite character is probably Zara's out-spoken, gutsy best friend, Trace.… (más)
 
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HeatherLINC | 3 reseñas más. | Jan 22, 2016 |

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Obras
53
Miembros
294
Popularidad
#79,674
Valoración
½ 3.6
Reseñas
18
ISBNs
100
Idiomas
1

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