Vale Mal Peet

Sadly novelist Mal Peet has recently died. His death is a huge loss to young adult writing. He wrote and illustrated for younger readers, however, it is for his young adult novels that he will be best remembered. His triology of Keeper, Penalty and Exposure was set loosely around soccer but dealt with South American politics and much more. Tamar, for which he won the Carnegie medal, is a tense story of WWII special operations agents in The Netherlands. It is intricate and engrossing and has an ending you never see coming. A fabulous read. Life an exploded diagram is, I think, his best work. A

wonderful coming of age book told with humour and understanding with an unforgettable ending. If you haven't read his books do yourself a favour and seek them out.

Rita @ Hawthorn

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