Firstly, thank you to Anderson Press for sending me this. Phil Earle is one of my favourite authors! This story is set in 1941 in a city during the bombing raids of World War II. City upon city are being turned to rubble and children are being evacuated to a safer place in the countryside. That is all except Joseph Palmer who arrives in the city to be taken in by a stranger. A stranger who doesn’t seem to want him or care for him. She is trying to keep her family business , a zoo, from crumbling within and its residence from starving. One such resident is Adonis, a silverback gorilla. Joseph realises that not only does the woman he now lives with holds so many secrets but that there is also something more about this gorilla than first meets the eye. This book is gripping from the very first page and was very hard to put down. The characters are real and engaging (but not always instantly likeable). The situations and issues are hard and fast but with time for the reader to try and fully comprehend what might be going on inside these character’s heads. What I liked most about this book is that it left many things unsaid and didn’t tie everything up in the end. There were still questions that were left unanswered and relationships left unexplored. This book is so powerful and evokes all the mayhem, worry and panadamodium that surrounded the blitz at its height so much that you can almost taste the acrid smoke left over by a bombing raid. Read this if you like: heart wrenching stories full of passion, stubborn but likeable characters and a book that will leave you thinking about it way after you put it down.
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