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Synopsis
Dido Twite is home from the seas and on her way to London when she gets caught up in strange events in Sussex. While tending a sick man in a filthy cottage lent her by the local wise woman, she has to foil plots centred around the manor house. By the author of "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase".
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Biographie de l'auteur
Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken; her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960.
Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, 'She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew.' Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in 1962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain.
Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children's books. She died in 2004.
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Dido Twite is back in England. But as soon as she sets foot on English soil, mischief awaits her. Marooned with strange inhabitants on the Tegleaze estate, she witnesses some suspicious goings-on: a priceless possession is stolen, a boy kidnapped, a twin sister found. And can she prevent a plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral in the Thames? Is another wicked Hanoverian conspiracy afoot?
'Immensely exciting, weird, and funny, Miss Aiken is at her best' The Evening Standard
'A magnificent historical extravaganza' Sunday Times
From the epic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase sequence
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Random House Children's Books, 1992
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