Talk:The Leap (novel)

I hope this is a helpful improvement. I couldn't resist the terrible pun:


 * The story ends with James saving Charlie from unwittingly taking her own life, and she finally realises what she was sleepwalking into.

It didn't sound quite right to me when I wrote it, but on second thoughts I rather like it. If the humour isn't appropriate, I guess I'll just have to put up with it being removed, but I'd appreciate it if a justification was given (on this page).


 * -Alan

I edited what Alan wrote
I didn't have any problems with what Alan wrote but I replaced most of it with an official intro to the book from Jonathan Stroud's official site. I did, however move some of it to another topic in the article.

Goodyfun (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)goodyfun

Disambiguation page needed
Can someone who is logged in create a disambiguation page for books having the same name?

The Leap (1984) is also a book that was written by Bill Hopkins and published by Deverell & Birdsey in 1959. A first edition copy is difficult to obtain because most of the print run was recalled by the publisher and destroyed. Reviewers found a lot to object about, and the publishers must have been so embarrassed that they issued a general recall. The edition that was printed 25 years later (in 1984) is, accordingly, easier to find, and commands for that reason a lesser price, and is considered less collectable.

Bill Hopkin's book details the ambitions of a ruthless British politician who arranges the assassination of a fellow candidate seeking the nomination of his party to parliament. In order to facilitate the assassination, he attempts to construct an alibi where he is a hundred miles away when a bomb goes off.

It takes its name from the self-sacrificial act of the politician's girlfriend, who leaps out of a boat to rescue him, as he is on the verge of drowning, but when it comes time to reciprocate, the hero of the story fails to do so, and so allows (or, arguably, causes) his girlfriend to drown.


 * It looked more like an instance of deception, than self-sacrifice.   But I agree, there needs to be a disambiguation page for this title.   216.99.198.251 (talk) 06:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

I've tried my best to add as much info as I could to this article
There's still more I might like to add to this page, but I'm not sure how much of a stub this article is anymore. It also has an infobox template now.

Goodyfun (talk) 20:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)goodyfun

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)