Molly Moon Stops the World opens with a famous child actress walking home alone in New York and finding an envelope with her name on it under a streetlamp.<\/p>\n
The note says sorry about this, but you know too much. Then a hand takes her arm and she is dragged, screaming for help, into a car. The doorman of her own building watches it happen and does nothing at all.<\/p>\n
That is chapter one, and it is genuinely nasty. It is also over quickly, and the story moves straight to a supermarket in England, where Molly and her friend Rocky are seeing who can throw a box of cereal furthest into the trolley.<\/p>\n
Molly is an orphan who found a book about hypnotism in a library and turned out to be frighteningly good at it. She has promised Rocky she will not do it any more. She is finding that very hard.<\/p>\n
You can see why. Georgia Byng writes the hypnotism as a physical thing, a warm fusion feeling that runs through her like a tropical sun, and giving it up is described as being told never to walk on your hands again once you have worked out how.<\/p>\n
So she finds a loophole. She only promised not to hypnotise people. Nobody said anything about a hedge clipped into the shape of a dog.<\/p>\n
And what comes back is not the warm feeling at all. It is an icy prickling, and something in Molly has changed.<\/p>\n
This is not the first Molly Moon and it does tell you what happened in the first one, in a tidy paragraph near the start, so read them in order if your reader minds that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
A word about the tone. A child is snatched off the street in chapter one, the orphanage Molly grew up in was a genuinely miserable place, and the book is quite happy to be creepy. It is also very funny about ketchup sandwiches, a pug and a supermarket trolley. If your reader enjoyed being a bit scared and then laughing about it, that mix is the whole appeal.<\/p>\n
Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism is the place to start, with Molly in a cold bath in a crumbling orphanage having no idea what is about to happen to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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