Tulku
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Winner of both Whitbread Award and Carnegie Medal. Starting quite well as a historical (Boxer Uprising) with Theodore (13), only survivor of his father's missionary settlement, meeting a brassy English actress turned botanist and her Chinese poet-guide, later her lover, it rambles into mysticism as they flee into Tibet and become involved in monastery politics. Not a patch on Dickinson's Blue Hawk (though even longer) and quite unreadable for 99% in schools, it seems to me a monumental waste of talent. Find his new Seventh Raven instead (Gollancz, 0 575 02960 9, £4.95) - that's much more like it.