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A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Eva Ibbotson
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Macmillan Children's Books, Chivers Audio Books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330398268
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“THE WILKINSON FAMILY became ghosts quite suddenly during the Second World War when a bomb fell on their house.”
Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a d
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