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The book opens with a girl wearing a dress the colour of midnight waiting in a park and sets a level of suspense and mystery for the rest of the story. Told in two time frames this is the story of a missing girl and the events that led to her disappearance.

Rose Lovell has arrived in the small town of Leonora in tropical Queensland with her drifter father. They have been on the road with their caravan constantly moving from one town to another since Rose's mother died when she was young. She know she doesn't fit in at the local high school and is amazed when she makes a friend in Pearl, a popular girl who lives with her Mum in a flat over their crystal and new age shop. Pearl and Rose are both at that age where they have just emerged from childhood into that beauty characteristic of very young women and have no idea of the effect they have on men. Pearl is organising the High School float in the annual parade and is adamant that Rose must have a dress made so she can join in. When Rose goes to see an old dressmaker, rumoured to be a witch, living in a decaying cottage at the foot of a mountain she is drawn in to her stories of the mountain and the rainforest.

This is a beautifully written book, very evocative and lyrical with atmospheric descriptions of the rainforest and the hidden bays of tropical Queensland. The cane cutters are waiting for the end of a long wet season and against the tension of everyone waiting for the humid weather to break is the tension that something is going to happen.In fact we know that something as happened as each chapter starts with a detective from Cairns who is investigating the disappearance of a girl. However, the author skillfully doesn't reveal what really did happen until the end of the book so the suspense stays high as we try to work it out. Although written for young adults this is a book that will be enjoyed by all adults.


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The Midnight Dress Karen Foxlee Books Reviews

Would like to read it again, to get the full story in perspective, a little had to follow at times. Intriguing, kept you interested. I did like it.
Better than I thought after a weak start, but definitely aimed at a teenage audience and I liked the comparisons of eras.
This is an amazing book. Great Aussie literature and a story that kept me in suspense throughout. Well written with plausible descriptions and storyline
I became engrossed in this very simple story of girls growing up.The setting was great with the small country town feeling and scenery envoking places I know well.I won't forget this story.
Very good book, full of magic and mystery.
Loved the Twist at 95%, interesting to have the police chat at the start of each chapter, easy to read, the difference between characters - all quirky but maybe normal. The book launch in Gympie was excellent and the author enthralled me with enthusiasm shall now seek out her first book
"A missing girl. A beautiful dress. The night that changes everything."

Rose Lovell is fifteen years old with flowing red hair and freckles. She and her alcoholic father, Patrick, arrive in the beach town of Leonora (Australia) in their caravan. Leonora will just be one more town where Patrick will park the caravan until he gets "itchy feet" and decides to uproot his daughter yet again. Rose is used to it. She's used to not being in one town long enough to make friends. She's used to not fitting in. She's lonely. She misses her Mother who died when Rose was just five years old.

Then Rose meets Pearl Kelly.

Pearl is the quintessential "it" girl in High School. She's beautiful and popular and just so nice. It just doesn't seem possible that on the very first day of school, Rose Lovell and Pearl Kelly will become best friends.

The girls couldn't be more opposite. Pearl is a sweet summer's day and Rose is the dark of a storm.

Pearl convinces Rose that she just must be in the town's biggest event, The Harvest Festival Parade. For this Rose will need a dress~~something that she can ill afford. A solution to this problem is that elderly dress maker and town outcast, Edie Baker, will take Rose under her wing and help her to make the dress of her dreams.

Edie Baker lives on the outskirts of town in a crumbling house that was once beautiful. The folks in town swear that Edie is a witch. With each sewing session comes a story of Edie's life. And with each sewing session the dress becomes more and more beautiful and mystical.

At the beginning of each chapter of THE MIDNIGHT DRESS we're teased with the ending. The author gives us glimpses into the investigation into the case of the missing girl in the midnight blue dress as she tells us the dark and mysterious events leading up to that night of the Harvest Festival Parade.

"I'll tell you another part of the ending. I don't want you to look if it hurts you. Close your eyes. She says, 'What are you doing here'? He says, 'It's you.' Just as surprised. His words come out in a breath. He smiles... 'I'm waiting for someone,' she says. Her heel catches on a stone; she wobbles smiles in return. 'Don't', he says. 'Just stay.'"

Told in a lyrical prose that flows with ease, this book was hard to look away from. You could feel the palpable anticipation growing as the story unfolds. Karen Foxlee has crafted a tale that transcends the boundaries of genre. Marketed as a Young Adult book, I can tell you that this not-so-young adult was enthralled.

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The book opens with a girl wearing a dress the colour of midnight waiting in a park and sets a level of suspense and mystery for the rest of the story. Told in two time frames this is the story of a missing girl and the events that led to her disappearance.

Rose Lovell has arrived in the small town of Leonora in tropical Queensland with her drifter father. They have been on the road with their caravan constantly moving from one town to another since Rose's mother died when she was young. She know she doesn't fit in at the local high school and is amazed when she makes a friend in Pearl, a popular girl who lives with her Mum in a flat over their crystal and new age shop. Pearl and Rose are both at that age where they have just emerged from childhood into that beauty characteristic of very young women and have no idea of the effect they have on men. Pearl is organising the High School float in the annual parade and is adamant that Rose must have a dress made so she can join in. When Rose goes to see an old dressmaker, rumoured to be a witch, living in a decaying cottage at the foot of a mountain she is drawn in to her stories of the mountain and the rainforest.

This is a beautifully written book, very evocative and lyrical with atmospheric descriptions of the rainforest and the hidden bays of tropical Queensland. The cane cutters are waiting for the end of a long wet season and against the tension of everyone waiting for the humid weather to break is the tension that something is going to happen.In fact we know that something as happened as each chapter starts with a detective from Cairns who is investigating the disappearance of a girl. However, the author skillfully doesn't reveal what really did happen until the end of the book so the suspense stays high as we try to work it out. Although written for young adults this is a book that will be enjoyed by all adults.