Stolen & Flyaway by Lucy Christopher + GIVEAWAY

www.lucychristopher.com

 

These are books I will never forget! 

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Stolen Published May 2009  

304 Pages|Publisher: Chicken House, Scholastic 

Told in a letter to her captor by 16-year-old Gemma, Stolen explores the influence that a really wild and remote space can have on the inner development of a young woman.

Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild land of outback Australia. To Gemma’s city-eyes, the landscape is harsh and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it.

Ty, a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things. But he too has been living in the city; Gemma’s city. Unlike Gemma, however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her, his plan finally begins to take shape.

But Ty is not a stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night. Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma’s appreciation of him develops into what could be referred to as Stockholm syndrome.

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I like it so much that I bought an additional hardcover edition. xD

Stolen Book Trailer

 

● German Edition ●

Ich wünschte, ich könnte dich hassen (transl. I wish I could hate you) Februar 2011

368 Seiten|Verlag: Chicken House

Du hast mich zuerst gesehen. Auf dem Flughafen, an jenem Tag im August. Dein intensiver Blick, noch nie hat mich jemand so angeschaut. Ich hab dir vertraut. Dann hast du mich entführt. Raus aus meinem Leben, weg von allem, was ich kannte. Hinein ins Nirgendwo, in Sand und Hitze und Dreck und Gefahr. Du hast geglaubt, dass ich mich in dich verliebe. Und dort im Nirgendwo, in Sand und Hitze und Dreck und Gefahr, hab ich mich in dich verliebt. Doch ich wünschte, ich könnte dich hassen. Die Geschichte einer Entführung - sensibel, verstörend, dramatisch.

Klappenbroschur●14,95€ ● ISBN 978-3-551-52008-1 

|Amazon.de (Buch)|Amazon.de (Hörbuch)|

Uuuh~ Creepy cover! The guy looks like a miner after a long day of hard work.

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Flyaway Published January 2010

260 Pages|Publisher: Chicken House, Scholastic

While visiting her father in hospital, Isla meets Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is determined to help him in the only way she knows how.

Together they watch a lone swan struggling to fly on the lake outside Harry’s window. Isla believes that if she can help the damaged swan, somehow she can help Harry. And in doing so, she embarks upon a breathtakingly magical journey of her own.

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There couldn't be a better ending! 

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Lucy talks about her books 

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＊Giveaway＊

International & EU residents

• International (1 Winner)
  

1x Stolen Paperback
1x SIGNED Stolen Card
1x SIGNED Flyaway Card

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2x SIGNED Stolen + Flyaway Card

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