One of the novel’s I read as part of my author study was The Golden Day. Based upon a true story, eleven school girls set out with their teacher Miss Renshaw to the gardens where they meet Morgan the gardener. The garden is a place for the girls to write poetry and collect their thoughts. This becomes a regular outing until one day Morgan takes the girls to explore some cave painting then returns them to their teacher who was supposed to be waiting for them in the gardens; however Miss Renshaw was not there. A waiting for her presence and yet no Miss Renshaw, they all walk back to the school. The mystery begins when the girls are all questioned by the teachers and headmistress in collaboration with the police about the disappearance of their teacher. All eleven girls have their own views of the disappearance of their teachers and one suggested that she might have been dead. Stunningly atmospheric, the story is packed with allusions to death and decay, loss of innocence and deception.
Ursula Dubosarsky has a well-known eye of language when she writes as she has a clear image of what she wants to portray in her stories and aims to use a variety of words and images to build up the picture and atmosphere of the storyline when she writes novels. The story keeps you on the edge of your seat and makes you want to keep on reading to discover the truth about the teacher’s disappearance. I would highly recommend this book to adolescences that love to read about true stories and mysteries.
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