Bloomsbury Group: Let's Kill Uncle (Paperback)

from abealy

"The children loved the little church; it was such a pleasant, peaceful spot in which to plan a murder." Let's Kill Uncle is a cheery little book that will leave you warm and spongy inside. Written in 1963 by West Coast Canadian author Rohan O'Grady (the pen name of June Skinner), it is an advent...

from ElizaJane

A mistake people may make with this book is assuming that with the two main characters being ten years old that the book is going to be *for* children. Well, it most certainly is not. Barnaby and Christie are the focal characters and the action surrounds them but it is the secondary adult charact...

from Philotera

Let's Kill Uncle belongs on the book shelf right next to "I Capture the Castle" and "Cold Comfort Farm." It's a dark (very dark) nasty comedy about Barnaby Gaunt and his friend Chrissie who decide that since no grownup will ever believe a child, the only way to save themselves from Barnaby's sadi...

from vanderschloot

This was an old-fashioned and strange little novel. It reminded me quite a bit of A High Wind in Jamaica, one of my favorite books of all time, but this book was not quite on that level. Let's Kill Uncle has a similar sadistic humor and utter lack of sentiment in its depiction of children.

from abealy

"The children loved the little church; it was such a pleasant, peaceful spot in which to plan a murder." Let's Kill Uncle is a cheery little book that will leave you warm and spongy inside. Written in 1963 by West Coast Canadian author Rohan O'Grady (the pen name of June Skinner), it is an advent...