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The Butterfly Tattoo Kindle Edition

by Philip Pullman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Young love has tragic, violent consequences in this “grippingly readable” thriller from the #1 bestselling author of La Belle Sauvage (Times Educational Supplement).

Chris Marshall met the girl he was going to kill on a warm night in early June . . .

Working at an Oxford ball, Chris falls in love with Jenny the moment he sets eyes on her. When beautiful, secretive Jenny rushes headlong into his life, it seems fate has brought them together. But fate will also drive them mercilessly apart, as enemies hidden in the shadows send the innocent affair spiraling down a dark road of danger, revenge, and betrayal. Chris is about to discover that his ideals of honesty and trust are more complicated than he thought.

With Northern Lights and its sequels, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, Carnegie Medal–winning author Philip Pullman established himself as a multimillion-copy bestselling phenomenon whose work speaks deeply to all ages. This contemporary novel, first published as The White Mercedes, tells the suspenseful story of a teenage romance with profound moral implications.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XMY6D5Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Teen & Tween (May 2, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2648 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 142 pages

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PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

It has recently been announced that The Book of Dust, the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman, also set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a major work in three parts, with the first part to arrive in October 2017.

Philip Pullman is the author of many other much-lauded novels. Other volumes related to His Dark Materials: Lyra’s Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, and The Collectors. For younger readers: I Was a Rat!; Count Karlstein; Two Crafty Criminals; Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant. For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, and The Tin Princess; The White Mercedes; and The Broken Bridge.

Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit philip-pullman.com and hisdarkmaterials.com. Or follow him on Twitter at @PhilipPullman.

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Ford Ka

Another Pullman and Another Oxford but Worth Reading Still

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2008

Fans of Pullman's trilogy should receive a fair warning before moving any further. This is not Lyra's Oxford, this is our Oxford so expect thugs, sex, crime but also love, trust and friendship.
Pullman retells the story of Romeo and Juliet with extreme adroitness. He manages to keep the lyrical beauty and truth of the play and avoids desperate attempts of retaining any elements that would seem dated and out of place in a modern novel.
This is a novel for younger adults but if you feel that your 13+ year olds have never heard about sex, you may need to read it first yourself. The danger is you may get hooked on Pullman seriously.

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Pandora

Stick with the fantasy

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2010

I wonder if PP is embarassed by this now? Having loved His Dark Materials I thought he might have done ok with some YA lit. Bad move, not only is it 'a modern day Romeo and Juliet' (it's the answering machine that screws up the message), the first line is great - if he was an unpublished teenager. Terrible, clunky plot that recycles cliche after cliche, teenage boy in love at first sight (oh please) and of course, all the men that meet Jenny want to have sex with her, because she's beautiful, skinny and stupid, with no will of her own. But that's not her fault , because as we all know, all beautiful uneduacated girls have been sexually abused by their fathers and this marks them out as victims.I don't know what he was thinking when he wrote this trash, it's substandard even for ordinary YA lit, but to think this is the same person who wrote the Golden Compass? He definetly needs to stick to fantasy. Just awful.

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YW

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2017

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Brilliant to find a literate writer who can create totally believable and complex characters who weave their own story. Predictable ending,but that's not important; it's the journey towards it which keeps you gripped and wanting to read on. Pullman is a wonderful story teller.

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Irving Benjamin

It's not His Dark Materials but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2017

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Not a bad read, but too many coincidences to be convincing. As you'd expect from Pullman, good sense of place.

Amazon Customer

Not his best book but a readable story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2017

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A good, fairly short read, which has kept me occupied at lunch for a few days. It's not his best story but vastly better than a lot of books on offer from other authors.

Mykal Jon

Sad but compelling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2018

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Impeccable characterization, as you would expect from Philip Pullman. I read the book in one sitting. If you are looking for an happy ending, sorry you won't get one. Highly recommended.