It finishes with the line “His name was P T Barnum, and he’d been looking for a mermaid”. P.S Just read the blurb for Henry’s new book, The Mermaid. I’m so pleased I read Lost Boy, Henry is a writer who has clearly hit her stride and I will never look at Peter Pan the same way again. I loved the idea and it was a great character study, making me question who the true villain really is.

There is certainly a whiff of Lord of The Flies. The camp he created of boys who never want to grow up and just want to play all day slowly disintegrates. Henry paints Peter as a selfish, sly and cunning boy who will stop at nothing to get his own way. As Jamie mourns for all the boys brought to the island only to die as a result of Peter’s blood thirsty games, Jamie figuratively and literally grows apart from Peter. Jamie’s slow disenchantment as the spell Peter cast falls away was fascinating to read. The tension increases throughout as the screw turns to the inevitable ending. Two years make a lot of difference as the characters in this 2017 turnout feel much more developed, as does the plot. Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. That being said it’s less violent than Alice, Henry’s 2015 retelling (follow on?) of Alice in Wonderland. The Little Mermaid (2023 film) The Little Mer Elmyra is an upcoming American. With an opening line of “Sometimes I dream of blood” and some pretty brutal scenes elsewhere, I certainly wouldn’t be comfortable with younger teens reading it. We may be talking about the land of lost boys but a children’s book Lost Boy is not. In this clever prequel we find out exactly why and how Jamie became the bearded, one handed Hook. This is what really happened.”īefore Captain Hook there was Jamie, Peter’s longest, bestest and most loyal friend. Once I loved a boy called Peter Pan….Peter Lies. “ There is one version of my story that everyone knows.

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