The Cuckoo Tree - Couverture souple

Aiken, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0618070230 ISBN 13 : 9780618070237

Editeur : HMH Books for Young Readers, 2000

Synopsis

When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. Soon suspicious things happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido catches a glimpse of her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she's in the midst of another Hanoverian plot. Can she get to London to warn the king and save St. Paul's Cathedral from sliding into the Thames?

A propos du livre

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 l962 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.

Quatrième de couverture :

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0618070230
• ISBN 13: 9780618070237
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304