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Loading... The Stone Boy (original 2011; edition 2014)by Sophie Loubière
Work InformationThe Stone Boy by Sophie Loubiere (2011)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) tara35 | Nov 23, 2014 |  This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The Stone Boy is a bestselling French book newly translated into English. The protagonist of the psychological thriller is Madame Preau. Madame Preau returns to her house after a stint in a convalescent home and discovers a little boy in the neighbor's backyard, all alone and neglected. He only comes out on Sunday afternoons. She goes on a mission to save the boy. The trouble is...is the boy real or a hallucination? Madame Preau suffers from mental illness, and she has stopped taking her medicine. I think the American audience will be sympathetic to the issues of mental illness and child abuse and will therefore feel a kinship to the quirky Madame Preau. However, there is a "positive" spin on euthanasia that many will not be able to swallow. Warning: Adult content. ( ) heidip | Sep 22, 2014 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The elderly Madame Preau is definitely a bit off her rocker, which causes her concerns about a neighbor child to be indulged and then ignored. No one can even verify the existence of the child. But Madame persists, keeping a journal record and attempting a photograph. However, her connection with reality seems to grow more and more tenuous, and she does have a history which throws her credibility further into doubt. It is clear how exasperating she must be for her son Martin, but I, as reader, grew increasingly fond of her. She is troubled by paranoia and she hears strange noises, but is caring and committed and persistent in her belief that she can save the child and no one believes in. A good read held together by a fine character. (  ) gbelik | Aug 30, 2014 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The story is also quite predictable. Mme Préau is so obviously crazy that it's amazing the French authorities ever let her out on the loose (though perhaps French mental health laws are more civil libertarian than U.S. laws), which did give me a little bit of problem with the story's credibility. For a "thriller," however, The Stone Boy did not have any particular twists or surprises. Again, quite well-written — and it's not at all a bad story either — but I'm a bit puzzled at the hype that this book seems to be getting. Not bad for a quick summer read, but don't rush out to buy it over everything else. ( ) CurrerBell | Aug 29, 2014 |  ) PopcornReads | Aug 14, 2014 | no reviews | add a review
The bestselling French phenomenon, winner of the Prix Lion Noir, now available in English for the first time... When Madame Préau returns to her own house outside Paris after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighborhood has changed. Now, instead of a beautiful garden next door there is a new house. And she can see directly into her new neighbors' windows. Madame Préau quickly feels that something isn't right. Her neighbors have two perfectly healthy children who play in the yard after school. But there is also a third child: a young boy who looks malnourished and abused, and tosses small stones at her window in an apparent call for help. The family denies his existence. But is the little boy real, or merely a hallucination of a lonely, mentally unstable old woman cut off from her own beloved grandson? When the police refuse to listen to her, Madame Préau decides to take matters into her own hands. She's determined to help the little boy, and she'll do anything to make sure he's safe... No library descriptions found. |
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