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Title: The Dynamite Room
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Jason Hewitt
Narrator: Will Thorp
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-30-15
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
It was all her doing. She had cried wolf, and the wolf had come.
It's July 1940, and 11-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives in her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty, the windows covered by black-out blinds - but Lydia settles in, determined to wait there until they return.
Late that night he comes: a wounded soldier, gun in hand, heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, the man explains, certain rules that Lydia must now follow. He says he won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house.
As the unlikely pair coexists in the claustrophobic confines of the house, each becomes dependent on the other for survival. But when Lydia tries to uncover what brought the soldier to her door, she realizes that he knows more than he should about her family - and that he's plotting something for them both.
Eerie, gripping, and piercingly sad, The Dynamite Room brings a strikingly original and contemporary resonance to the great tradition of war classics. It shrinks the global theater of history's most devastating war to a game of cat and mouse played out in a single house - resulting in a moving portrait of war and how it affects soldiers and citizens alike.
Critic Reviews:
"Suspenseful and powerful. A novel of great humanity that exposes the absurd contradictions of war." (Samantha Harvey, author of the Orange shortlisted/Booker longlisted The Wilderness)
"An effective psychological drama between two extraordinary characters. Claustrophobic, touching, character-driven, and told in lovely prose.... Readers who loved The Boy in the Striped Pajamas will have a strong affinity with The Dynamite Room."(Katie Ward, author of Girl Reading)
"Clever and unsettling, this most unconventional of war stories had me totally gripped." (Shelley Harris, author of Jubilee)
Members Reviews:
Don't Miss This One! Loved it!
July 1940. In the high heat of summer, eleven-year-old Lydia walks alone down a dusty road to her English village and finds the place deserted. Disquieted, she continues homeward with her suitcase bumping her leg and the box for her gas mask swinging from her shoulder. Greyfriars is empty, but Lydia settles in to wait for her familyâs return. And then that night, she wakes to the creak of footsteps in the house.
It is a wounded Nazi soldier who did not expect to find anyone here, certainly not Lydia, who is a runaway from Wales, where she had been sent as an evacuee. A German invasion is coming, he says. They must prepare Greyfriars for the next arrivals. He will not hurt her if she does as he says. Break the rules, and he will shoot her. Thus, their cautious relationship begins: a cat-and-mouse game wherein she tiptoes past him while he explores Greyfriars, searching forâ what? When they are in separate rooms, Heiden feels Lydia âcrouching behind the door, listening to him listening to her,â though neither makes a sound. They, and we, feel the pulse of the house breathing as this wonderful, thoroughly original story unfolds.
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Title: The Dynamite Room
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Jason Hewitt
Narrator: Will Thorp
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-30-15
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
It was all her doing. She had cried wolf, and the wolf had come.
It's July 1940, and 11-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives in her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty, the windows covered by black-out blinds - but Lydia settles in, determined to wait there until they return.
Late that night he comes: a wounded soldier, gun in hand, heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, the man explains, certain rules that Lydia must now follow. He says he won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house.
As the unlikely pair coexists in the claustrophobic confines of the house, each becomes dependent on the other for survival. But when Lydia tries to uncover what brought the soldier to her door, she realizes that he knows more than he should about her family - and that he's plotting something for them both.
Eerie, gripping, and piercingly sad, The Dynamite Room brings a strikingly original and contemporary resonance to the great tradition of war classics. It shrinks the global theater of history's most devastating war to a game of cat and mouse played out in a single house - resulting in a moving portrait of war and how it affects soldiers and citizens alike.
Critic Reviews:
"Suspenseful and powerful. A novel of great humanity that exposes the absurd contradictions of war." (Samantha Harvey, author of the Orange shortlisted/Booker longlisted The Wilderness)
"An effective psychological drama between two extraordinary characters. Claustrophobic, touching, character-driven, and told in lovely prose.... Readers who loved The Boy in the Striped Pajamas will have a strong affinity with The Dynamite Room."(Katie Ward, author of Girl Reading)
"Clever and unsettling, this most unconventional of war stories had me totally gripped." (Shelley Harris, author of Jubilee)
Members Reviews:
Don't Miss This One! Loved it!
July 1940. In the high heat of summer, eleven-year-old Lydia walks alone down a dusty road to her English village and finds the place deserted. Disquieted, she continues homeward with her suitcase bumping her leg and the box for her gas mask swinging from her shoulder. Greyfriars is empty, but Lydia settles in to wait for her familyâs return. And then that night, she wakes to the creak of footsteps in the house.
It is a wounded Nazi soldier who did not expect to find anyone here, certainly not Lydia, who is a runaway from Wales, where she had been sent as an evacuee. A German invasion is coming, he says. They must prepare Greyfriars for the next arrivals. He will not hurt her if she does as he says. Break the rules, and he will shoot her. Thus, their cautious relationship begins: a cat-and-mouse game wherein she tiptoes past him while he explores Greyfriars, searching forâ what? When they are in separate rooms, Heiden feels Lydia âcrouching behind the door, listening to him listening to her,â though neither makes a sound. They, and we, feel the pulse of the house breathing as this wonderful, thoroughly original story unfolds.