- Humorous stories, Fiction, Children's stories, Fantasy
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.
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Joan Aiken
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Red Fox, Doubleday and Company Inc., Puffin Books
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780099456650
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“A wild westerly gale was blowing over the south downs one November evening when a chaise-and-pair, having slowly ascended the long, gradual hill on the London road some five miles north of the Port of Chichester, came to a halt at the top.”
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia
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