- Ghost stories, Juvenile fiction, 1970s, Fiction
The ghosts of Britain need a sanctuary. Castles with central heating, bogs drained for motorways, dismal forests cleared for car parks-there are few places left for a respectable ghost to haunt.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Eva Ibbotson
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Macmillan, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525467694
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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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