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Ian Beck
ISBN: 9780370332109
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Random House Children's Publishers UK
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Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - with her fiercely strict father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past.
This is a magical, enchanting tale, with stunning illustrations that will transport you into another world. Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - with her fiercely strict father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is never to go outside unsupervised. And she is never to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'condition' that she has been told she suffers from. But Charity has a secret. All her life, she has had the same strange dream - a dream of a dark corridor, hidden somewhere in the house. Then, one day, Charity stumbles across the corridor. It leads to a door ...and suddenly she realises things are not quite what they seem.
| ISBN | 0370332105 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780370332109 (What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 329 | | Publisher | Random House Children's Publishers UK | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Bodley Head Children's Books | | Height (mm) | 184 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 134 | | Publication date | 03 Nov 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | Children | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | from 9 to 11 |
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