![]() It's certainly the only book I'll recommend but won't lend for fear of losing it I buy another copy to give them because I'm that confident that they'll love it! This is quite possibly my favourite book. The great climax glues one to the page: walking home with my nose buried in the book I went straight past my own house! - an outcome that would have pleased Momo immensely. Momo has to cope with the disappearance of all her friends and find a way past her loneliness to save them. Warm and gripping throughout, the book has occasional passages of surpassing beauty, such as the imaginary seafaring adventure the children enjoy early on, and Momo's visit to the place where time comes from. Eventually it falls to Momo alone to confront the men in grey, though she is aided by Professor Hora, the keeper of time, and his prophetic tortoise Cassiopeia. As the grown-ups rush around, their lives and those of their children become increasingly stressful and unhappy. But then the men in grey move into the city, slyly persuading people to save time at all costs, time which the grey men themselves use to sustain their soulless lives. There her almost supernatural skill as a good-natured listener and hedge-therapist endears her to the locals, children and adults both. ![]() ![]() ![]() Momo is a vagrant girl who settles in a ruined amphitheatre on the edge of a city. ![]()
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