Having inherited her grandfather's clairvoyant powers, Helen Draper meets a mysterious stranger who needs someone to help him find something, and she must carefully weigh all the factors involved.
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Set in England, this enigmatic first novel centers on 16-year-old Helen, who is riding a crowded train with her grandfather when he has a fatal heart attack. At the moment of his death, Helen "sees" herself with him on the beach, watching a man in a gray silk suit. This is the first indication that the elderly man has passed on to his granddaughter the special vision that made him a "finder," capable of locating missing things or people and of experiencing the past. Rather incredibly, the girl abandons her grandfather's body on the train and runs away to his cottage in a seaside village, where she again encounters the mysterious man in the gray silk suit. Readers will have to work to decipher Dean's rather muddled plot, which follows Helen's attempts to make sense of her disturbing visions (including the sinking of a 17th-century ship and the torture of a 13th-century "merman" captured from the sea) and of the gray-suited man's oddly beguiling yet ominous presence. Though Dean's narrative contains some intriguing imagery, its frequently cryptic dialogue and unanswered questions may leave its audience more puzzled than entertained. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 6^-8. Sixteen-year-old Helen Draper feels at odds with her family, partially because she is adopted. When her grandfather dies suddenly, Helen begins to have frightening hallucinations involving a stranger in a gray silk suit who says he wants her help. Through the aid of some friends and her ailing grandmother, Helen comes to realize that her grandfather has passed on to her his gift of being a "finder" --a person able to touch a thing and know its secrets as well as to find missing people and things. In this short novella, Dean tackles a great many--perhaps too many--issues, among them adoption, alienation, Alzheimer's disease, sudden death, and the supernatural. Although the ending is abrupt, leaving nearly as many questions as answers, Helen's powers of clairvoyance will intrigue readers. Kay Weisman
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