Advantages: Her finest novel to date. Disadvantages: contraversial
...a readers' perceptions of life.
Border Crossing is such a challenging read, on a theme that is truly apt to today’s social problems, that of children who commit crimes.
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Tom Seymour, a child physchologist, has already got more problems than he can cope with, a failing marriage, where he sees his wife only at weekends, his failure to get Lauren, his wife to conceive a child and an ongoing three-year research project, which takes up ... ...well. He has crossed the border into Danny’s life. Is he too being manipulated?. Was the suicide really planned by Danny?. These questions and more fill his head. His one true sounding board is Martha, who seems to be the only person that has a deeper insight into Danny’s character. However, she is due to go to a wedding and cannot call it off.
This leaves Tom alone with Danny, who is about to tell Tom of the day of the murder. The tale is harrowing ...
Elffriend 21.07.2004
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