“I’m thinking of her laugh, her hats, her dogs and cats, her winter coughs, her knitted coats, her rainbow wig, and very imposing penguin suit. In her introduction to the latest edition she writes of the her hero Margaret Mahy:
Jacko is a small boy I wanted to live, not die and I found myself driven to read on, to urge Laura to put some of her thoughts into action, to save him if she could.Īs a young woman New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox met Margaret Mahy and got to know her well.
I was caught up in a great story and characters. It’s a darn good story with witches and a bit of magic thrown in and it works. Whilst I have read sci-fi and Fantasy, The Changeover avoids both genres. There appears to be more going on with Sorry and Laura than meets the eye and what happened to Jacko? Are Laura’s bizarre theories correct? I was so pleased I tracked the book down. I missed the last few episodes and headed to the library. I first heard it as an adult, as it was read on a children’s holiday programme. The Changeover is classed as a teenage story with supernatural elements. So she turns to Sorry for help, knowing, believing he is a witch. It’s tough going and Laura’s mad ideas are just not going anywhere. Her Mum is struggling to make ends meet, keep her job and be a loving Mum, there for her children. Jacko’s health starts to deteriorate, his life hanging in the balance, and Laura is convinced it’s because of the man in the shop. Except on the way they pass a shop that was never there before and the strange, rather sinister old bloke inside bothers her enormously… Warily she continues through her day at school, picks up Jacko and walks home, everything as normal. She’s had them before, when their Dad left the family home and when she met Sorry (Sorenson) a prefect at her high school. Laura Chant lives with her Mum and beloved little brother Jacko and she has ‘warnings’.
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