Whisper is the book of a very famous German children’s and youth writer Isabel Abedi. It is a crime and love story. It was published in 2007. The book talks about a weird family which came on summer holidays to the country.
Kat is a very famous film actress, Noa’s mother and Gilbert’s friend. The family lives in Berlin. Gilbert loves reading fat books which talk about ghosts, the universe, clairvoyance, etc. He also has a statue of the Buddha. Kat is always in the centre of attention. Noa’s real name is Nora (after the famous actress Nora Gregory), but she didn’t like it so she took the R away.
Kat’s agent hires a five hundred years old house in the country on her wish. Kat, Noa and Gilbert are supposed to spend summer holidays there. The owner of the house is a farmer named Hallscheit.
When they enter the house, Noa smells a perfume. It smells very strongly, as if someone has put it on recently, even though the house has been closed for thirty years. The smell disappears in a short time. They eat dinner in an inn called Kropp, a little away from the house. Marie, Esther (Marie’s mother in law) and Gustav (Esther’s son) work there and are the owners. They live above the pub. Marie has two sons: David, who is the similar age as Noa and Kalle. David helps Kat, Noa and Gilbert to renew the house. Noa and David soon fall in love. One evening they play calling ghosts. There appears the ghost of a girl Eliza, who was murdered in the attic of that house thirty years ago.
The new owners find a lot of things which belonged to their predecessors. Noa and David find out that girl Eliza really existed. They communicate with Eliza by a piece of paper on which numbers and letters are written. Eliza is gives them various hints and helps Noa and David to expose a cold-blooded killer. Eliza also wants them to find her diary. Noa and David find it and read it. They realize that Eliza had a very sad life. One August night David, Noa and the two brothers from the village come to the attic of the house where Noa, Kat and Gilbert live during the summer. They don’t expect anybody there, but a murderer comes. He nearly kills Noa too, but luckily David saves her. The perfume, which belonged to Eliza, disappears from the house before they call the police. Eliza has gone from this world. A few days after this event, summer holidays finish and Noa, Kat and Gilbert go back to Berlin.
I read this book many times and it seemed very interesting every time I read it. I recommend it to anyone who loves crime and love stories. You shouldn’t be scared of thick books, too.
Tina, 9.r