[JDPUB: 88] The Great Alarm Clock Robbery - Peter Frow

 

THE GREAT ALARM CLOCK ROBBERY by Peter Frow is now available from Just Done R85

 

"This is a children's book in that it can be read with enjoyment by eight year olds and upwards while children as young as four will enjoy having it read to them. Yet adults also find it a compelling read. Many report, "I couldn't put it down, I had to read to the very finish in one go."

 

Pip stays with his guardian Edna who is housekeeper to Professor Ferdinand Philpott. Together with Jeremy the cat, they live in the house with three chimneys just three miles from the village of Honeydew. The Professor spends his time inventing things. His favourite inventions are those made from alarm clocks and string. Then there is Forbes the village undertaker and his sour-faced wife not to mention Edna’s fourteen friends and the Reverend Lovejoy. All these have a part in the events that lead to a dramatic and mysterious climax on the night of the robbery. Pip has a key to the role in solving the mystery. This is a story where kindness triumphs over meanness, and romance and happiness are the reward of the steadfast. There are many surprises; even Jeremy the cat springs a surprise.

 

More than the ‘whodunit’ factor, it is the unique and memorable characters and the way they interact that sustain the interest in the story. The tale is told with quiet humour, yet there is plenty of suspense and not a little pathos.

Romance there is in abundance: the book could have been subtitled "Three weddings and a funeral."

 

In no way can this book be considered bland or superficial: it deals with issues of life and death, courage and cruelty, grief and happiness not to mention, forgiveness, restoration, romance and marriage. All these though deftly woven into the storyline are handled in a straightforward and sensitive fashion that will help shape a child's, and for that matter an adult's, understanding and attitude towards these issues in a positive way.

 

 

The book contains some seventy illustrations by Gail Gillings.

 

 

About the Author

Peter Frow was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1944 and spent the first four years of his life in Colenso in the Natal Midlands. The family then moved to Durban. Peter matriculated from Westville High School (at that time a co-ed school) in 1961 and went on to study Mechanical Engineering at Natal University, Durban. Having completed his degree in 1965, he worked for ESKOM, the South African electricity supply authority, for seven years, attaining the position of Senior Engineer. Having joined the family engineering business, Peter entered the field of production machining and today runs his own business which manufactures production lathes to his own design.

 

During a seven year interlude from engineering he completed a theology degree through the University of South Africa. Writing, which he describes as ‘not his day job’ began some time around 1980 with the odd poem and short story."

 

THE GREAT ALARM CLOCK ROBBERY is a book that will delight readers, young and old. I read it in one sitting, and am looking forward to reading it again. Peter has hit just the right note in this story, aimed mainly at children – not too simple and not too sophisticated – and he doesn’t shy away from adult issues either, such as death, greed and re-marriage.

The tale is full of highly unusual, but believable, characters, who unwittingly become entangled in some hair-raising adventures, involving robbery, secrets and alarm clocks. This book, with its amusing illustrations, is guaranteed to keep children of all ages enthralled, and calling for more. 

 

Peter Frow is Dickens for children! Helen Osborne

 

 A5, paperback, 168 pages, b/w illustrations

 

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