This book is written by Eileen Dewhurst. Sue Halliday has spent the first sixteen years of her life appearing in Festival TV's long-running programme "The House That Jack Built". She becomes infatuated with a fellow actor and writes her true feelings in a notebook which is consequently stolen. Sinister telephone calls make Sue feel that she is unable to trust anyone around her, and any of her fellow actors could be the voice making her pay for her feelings. Then accidents to characters in the serial parallel accidents to the actors in real life...
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A good retelling of a classic favorite,
By ...Loggie... "Loggie-log-log-log" (I live on the earth, in the western hemisphere, in North America, in the country of the United States of America, in Illinois in the town of Champaign) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The House That Jack Built (Hardcover)
Just by building a house, Jack is the beginning of a story that grows with each page. "This is the house that Jack built. This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built..."The rhyming pattern of this book is unique in that sometimes things rhyme, and other times they don't. The words flow nicely though, and the book has a nice rhythm to it, and it reads well out loud. The illustrations in this book are very good. At times they almost look like collages, but they contain a depth and shading that collages don't have. They also are very expressive, even if they aren't completely realistic. In short, this is a nice telling of a nursery rhyme with great pictures. Loggie-log-log-log
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Eileen Dewhurst's THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT is a murder mystery told around the background of a British television series of the same title.Sue Halliday has been a member of the cast since she was two weeks old, but as an emerging young woman she has a crush on one of the actors in the show. She keeps a fantasy journal of her faux romance. This is stolen from her purse and her nightmare begins as a staged voice on the phone blackmails her into actions she doesn't understand until real accidents start happening to members of the cast. The early part of the story told from Sue's perspective is rather flat, long and drawn out. The story gains substance when the point-of-view switches to that of Sue's real mother who has been deprived a her daughter's love by her stage mother. Okay read, but lagging in pace. Nash Black, author of SANDPRINTS OF DEATH.
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