![]() ![]() In this case, the protagonist Hazel is growing up and becoming a young woman in a time when women were coming into their own. What is marvellous about Hearn’s style is that she uses history and the social changes to mirror the protagonist. She has a brilliant ability to create believable and likeable historical fiction for children. ![]() It pains me to say that because I really enjoyed Rowan the Strange as did the KS3 students that I read it with two years ago. ![]() Hazel is the second book that I have read by Julie Hearn and I have to say I liked it more than Rowan the Strange. It is these outside factors (among plenty of others) that force Hazel Louise Mull-Dare to grow up and to take stock of what is really happening in the world. Her life is further awash with turmoil when her father loses all of their money (and potentially their social status through gambling. Having lived an extremely sheltered life, Hazel – the daughter of a gentleman – looks at the world with wide eyed optimism and ends up landing herself in a spot of bother when she befriends the wrong sort of girl. ![]() She was there the day that Emily Davison was knocked down by a horse at the Epsom Derby and from that moment on she becomes obsessed with the rights and wrongs of the world. For Hazel Louise Mull-Dare the changes are having a massive impact. It is early in the 20 th Century and the times are changing. ![]()
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