The Visitors

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Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the intrigue and excitement that surrounds the obsessive hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. There are shades, and suggested ghosts, and although the ending is not very original - in fact it has echoes of many classic ghost stories - it is quite creepy and the whole is quite well played out as an exercise in tension. The author has a phenomenal talent which shines through even in these short stories, and makes me only want to read more of her other works. Just when I started to feel comfortable, Beauman yanks Lucy out of Egypt and back to Cambridge to meet the woman who will become her new stepmother.

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The lesser-known archaeologists Lythgoe, Mace, Burton and Lucas, the foreman Ahmed Girigar and chemist Gardiner are also present in our story: don't fret – you don't need know all these names because Beauman thoughtfully provides you with a cast of characters cleverly divided via place and year. The title references what should be the focus of the story, the fact that one boy whom she hadn’t really noticed, Oliver, stays longer than planned, and even after quite a long time, still has not been picked up by his parents. In Chicago, the Visitors' grip on the Earth has been freed with the release of the Red Dust, the bacteria discovered in the digestive tract of Robin Maxwell's hybrid children, which killed the more reptilian twin. At times, Denis and Francis tore into each other with such wounding malice, going for the jugular with every remark, that I imagined they would never see each other again.

Nothing about this book really works like it should, the cover description is somewhat misleading, character motivations are not always consistent; there are at least three different novels stuffed into one and yet the book is overly long by a hundred pages or so. It was followed in 1984 by a three-part miniseries, V: The Final Battle, and a nineteen-episode weekly television series, V (sometimes referred to as V: The Series) during the 1984–85 television season. Exceedingly clever little snapshots into the terrifying supernatural, precisely and warmly written by with wonderful Sophie Hannah.

The Visitors (novel) - Wikipedia

She appears on the fringes of scenes but has a weighty emotional sub-plot that doesn't receive nearly enough attention. She is forty-one and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College.

Jessi Jezewksa Stevens' scalpel-fine prose – slicing with wit and pathos – belies the bewildering scope of The Visitors, which lays bare everything from the audacity of modern finance to the visceral costs of debt, love, and success. Harrison has written a thoughtful and powerful reimagining of a significant moment in Australian history, from a First Nations perspective.

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I decided to give this collection a try simply because I've read some of the author's other books and loved them. He later commanded the British Eighth Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily and the Allied invasion of Italy and was in command of all Allied ground forces during the Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord), from D-Day on 6 June 1944 until 1 September 1944.Highly intelligent and bold, Lucy and Frances played ‘spy games’, and both saw and heard things which are pertinent to the core of the story. Why my library chose to categorise it as “Horror”, complete with a sticker of a horned devil on the spine, I have no idea. Told through the eyes of Lucy, a woman who first experiences Egypt at the young age of eleven, the book also tells her life story - along with other subplots and more to the story between the lines.