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Audiobook8 hours
And This is True
Written by Emily Mackie
Narrated by Donald Pirie
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Nevis Gow is 15. For eleven years he has lived in a van with his father, Marshall, until one day Marshall crashes the van and everything changes. Stranded on a remote Highland farm, Marshall tries to steer them back to normality while Nevis fights to keep things the way they were. Soon, though, he comes to realise that nothing about his lost life was quite as it seemed.
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Reviews for And This is True
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3.5/5
12 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very strange book, in a good way. It tells you about the relationship of a 15 year-old boy with his father, who took him out of society when he was 4 and made a life for the two of them in a van, travelling, avoiding people and the world in general. The boy grows up without any idea what the real world is like, what is right or wrong or how to behave. And being an adolescent he falls in love with the only other being he knows - his father. It is a very haunting story, told by the boy, who's world shatters when the father crashes the van and they find shelter on a nearby farm with a group of people who has their own share of problems. The book is well written, nice to read and the story is dark and warped enough to keep my attention. The novel just avoids being simple - sometimes it was a bit to easy to read, no real challenge here. But it was fun enough.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was really looking forward to reading this, after all the hype and promotion it received.It wasn't what I had expected. The book is told through the eyes of Nevis Gow, a 15 yr old boy who lives with his father Marshall in a Ford Transit van. They have been living in the van for the last 11 years. They shun and scorn society (Marshall was an English teacher in London in the past), schooling, the world.Nevis not only loves his father, but is in love with him. Growing up in such an isolated fashion, Nevis is quite naive about the world and socieital norms. Marshall crashes the van in a field, and their lives change.Nevis is an interesting narrator - he is dark, confused, obsessional, child like and funny.I enjoyed other characters (and really liked their vernacular Scottish being used) Ailsa, Duckman and Elizabeth.Looking forward to more by Emily.