The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Halloween edition

by Stephen King

Tricia is lost in the woods. But she's not alone . . .

'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.'

Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods.

At first it's just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon.

As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There's something else in the woods - watching. Waiting . . .

• ISBN10: 1529311128
• ISBN13: 9781529311129
• Publish Date: 19 September 2019 (first published 16 February 1999)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 August 2022
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Hodder Paperback
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

The baseball. I should have guessed it from the title, but it bothered me very much. I really don't care for every little detail. There is a reason why I didn't do any sports in high school.

The rest of the story was okay. Not extraordinarily good, but not that bad either. The end seemed a little strange to me, I had the feeling I missed the point.

If you can get past the endless baseball, it's an interesting story about a little girl struggling to survive in the woods.