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  • Written by: Laura Whitcomb
  • Narrated by: Lauren Molina
  • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Narrated by: Lauren Molina
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Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead. Though I could not feel paper between my fingers, smell ink, or taste the tip of a pencil, I could see and hear the world with all the clarity of the Living. They, on the other hand, did not see me as a shadow or a floating vapor. To the Quick, I was empty air.

Or so I thought. In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: For the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen - terrified, but intrigued - is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.

©2005 Laura Whitcomb (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Company
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What the critics say

"The author's poetic prose, capturing the spirit and sorrow of the two unearthly protagonists, will likely have a mesmerizing effect." (Publishers Weekly)
"Whitcomb writes with a grace that befits Helen's more modulated world while depicting contemporary society with sharp insight." (School Library Journal)

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great concept, could have done more with it.

the narrator is amazing. makes up for the lackings of the book. Important point: the prose is great, the story could just use some work.

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