Darwen is dumbfounded and grief-stricken. This transition works about as well as you can imagine. We became obsessed by Darwen’s adventures, as he encounters horrors that range from American private school kids to monsters from other worlds who intrude, inconveniently into our own.ĭarwen is a British boy, uprooted from a town in Northern England and sent to Atlanta, Georgia to live with his Aunt Honoria (“tall and slim, with a mouth so thin it might have been drawn on with a pencil”). Hartley’s Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact proved that rare bird which kept an almost-teenager and her mother reading feverishly, even though the main character is not female (from my daughter’s point of view, a strike against him). It’s harder to get caught up in a story and return to it the next night, especially if Project Runway or some similarly delicious, anti-intellectual pleasure beckons.Ī. These days we dissect the books as we read. But the progression from Good Night, Moon to novel-length adventures has not been seamless. I’m still reading aloud to my 12-year-old daughter.
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