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Book Title: Briefgeheim
The author of the book: Jan Terlouw
Edition: Lemniscaat
Date of issue: 1973
ISBN: 906069161x
ISBN 13: 9789060691618
Language: English
Format files: PDF
The size of the: 16.16 MB
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Reader ratings: 5.4

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Original review on my blog

Terlouw’s writing is very inviting, it draws you in. The book starts off quite dull, with a description of the characters. Not the most exciting way to start a book. The way it’s written however and the details Terlouw decides to share about the characters makes that you immediately want to keep reading.
The character are, after all, interesting. A girl who’s often scared and not such a daredevil, with a friend who’s the exact opposite. And the little brother of the friend, who throws rocks like no other. It is such a strange way to describe the characters at first, that you just have to keep reading. That is exactly what I did.
Most of the story is realistic. Some smaller and bigger inconveniences of life are added to ensure this. There’s a substitute teacher, because the regular teacher is sick, or fights between Eva’s parents. All of this makes it seem so normal that you wouldn’t expect anything strange to happen, besides the fact that you know something is going to happen, because it was in the synopsis on the back of the book.
An adventure that’s both scary and exciting is what’s going to happen. It’s done splendidly. All kinds of details are added to confuse the reader and the characters in the book, eventually though it is all figured out. I think this was one of the most complicated children’s mysteries I’ve read. Especially because there are some red herrings, which usually are left out of children’s mysteries.
What’s kind of cool too, is that this was once contemporary. Mostly, it can still be seen that way; there’s not much that really indicates that this happened in the 1970s. However, that at the same time almost makes it historical fiction, as it’s over 40(!) years old. It doesn’t read like that though, this could’ve happened just yesterday.

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Na de middelbare school studeerde Jan Terlouw wis- en natuurkunde in Utrecht en deed vervolgens 13 jaar onderzoek in de natuurkunde, in Nederland, de Verenigde Staten en Zweden. Daarna ging hij in de politiek. In 1971 kwam hij voor D'66 in de Tweede Kamer. Twee jaar later werd hij voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer-fractie. Onder zijn leiding kwam D'66 uit een diep dal, en behaalde het in 1981 een grote verkiezingsoverwinning. Waarschijnlijk hebben zijn jeugdboeken bijgedragen aan de populariteit onder jongeren van D'66. Hij werd minister van Economische Zaken in het tweede en derde kabinet-Van Agt. Na de verkiezingsnederlaag van D'66 in 1982 verliet hij de politiek en ging in Parijs als secretaris-generaal van de Conferentie van Europese transportministers werken. In 1991 werd hij Commissaris van de Koningin in Gelderland. Eind 1996 ging hij met pensioen, maar van 1999 tot en met 2003 zat hij in de Eerste Kamer. Jan Terlouw is getrouwd en heeft een zoon en drie dochters.
Samen met zijn dochter Sanne schrijft Jan Terlouw detectives.