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A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. But George's world turns upside down when he discovers that Mr Treet is not his real father, and that he must go and live with his real family.Where someone, somewhere out in the fog, is waiting for him...Leon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie medalThis is a fast-moving, exciting read and is accompanied by atmospheric black and white line drawings by acclaimed artist Jason Cockcroft… (más)
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My father is put in the stocks again! Oh! The injustice of it!
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…rooms with deep, old windows, where the light, once inside,seemed to fumble for a way out…
Then he turned and went slowly back towards his room, ignoring Joseph's offer of assistance (for that person had appeared beside him, so full of solicitude that it fairly ran over and onto the floor) with a shake of his head.
The gloom this caused him, he said, he pushed - between rent days - to the back of his mind: which place must have been the largest of its kind anywhere.
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Back in Fulking, the House, I understand, is now somwhat cheerfuller with its new possessors … though it will always be dark, and the mists will always inhabit the copse. But at least, that uneasy place's chief inhabitant has now been moved. For the dead little gentleman sleeps in the churchyard, close by his father - and talks to Mrs. Montague no more.
A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. But George's world turns upside down when he discovers that Mr Treet is not his real father, and that he must go and live with his real family.Where someone, somewhere out in the fog, is waiting for him...Leon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie medalThis is a fast-moving, exciting read and is accompanied by atmospheric black and white line drawings by acclaimed artist Jason Cockcroft
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