When a colonist from a forgotten artificial moon returns to Earth, thirteen-year-old Merry and her grandfather must battle to save their culture from the visitor's strange powers.
This book is still a favourite today, and possibly the best written by HM Hoover. It resonates because I read it as a white child growing up in South Africa in the 1980's - and the society she describes in the book was incredibly simular to the one I lived in then.
A fascinating world, but a bit bare on plot.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Hoover is an excellent writer; the world she has built could supply the background for a novel several times the length. Unfortunately, the plot never quite comes together; events seem to occur with the main character an observer rather than an actor.
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