Title: The Shattering Author: Karen Healey Publisher: Hachette Book Group Imprint: Little Brown Books for Young Readers  Pub Date: 09/05/2011 Category: YOUNG ADULT: Mysteries & Detective Stories.  Fantasy, & Magic Like the best of speculative fiction, this refreshingly different young adult book beautifully illuminates reality and highlights truth, in this case, the nature of grieving for those left behind after the suicide of a loved one.  ‘The Shattering’ also has an imaginative take on the term ‘magic’ when we apply it to a beautiful landscape.  Have you ever seen the glassy-eyed stare of a tourist as they stand bewitched by the beauty of a glittering bay? You may look at that stuporific stare a little differently after reading this book. Summertown is on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and having grown up near Christchurch, I know better than most how impossible it is for a town on the Coast to always be sunny between Christmas and New Year. Yet … [Read more...]