

Snowflake, AZ
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Narrator: M.W. Cartozian Wilson
Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/17/2019
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Narrator: M.W. Cartozian Wilson
Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/17/2019
Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. His books have been shortlisted for many awards, including The GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION AWARD, the BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD, the CARNEGIE MEDAL and the EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a teenage daughter, Alice.Find his website at www.marcussedgwick.com and follow him on Twitter @marcussedgwick
You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight Marcus Sedgwick sure writes some unique stuff. I won't pretend that this was my favorite of his per se, but it definitely had some thought provoking moments. In the book, Ash sets out to fin......more
I don’t think I could sum up in a nutshell what this book is all about any better than the synopsis that came with the book from the publisher: ‘A timely, contemporary novel challenging ideas around health – our own and our planet's – and the stigma that persists around illness’, so I am not going t......more
The premise of this book is based on a real life event that happened to the author, Marcus Sedgwick. After returning from a trip to Asia he started getting sick. Doctors could not give him a reason for this illness, and were inclined to suggest that it was all in his head. On the back of this diagno......more
I found this book slow moving and strange nearly giving up on it. The characters were not engaging and it dragged on with a lot of odd philosophical writing. It was a shame because the ideas were interesting; it is a warning about how modern life and products are poisoning people and the environment......more
It felt like this book was meant to be sympathetic to people who suffer from undiagnosed illnesses, but at the same time it made all of the people seem foolish. Ash is just thrown into this environment and doesn't really give us an understanding of what is good or bad for people and which people and......more