- Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Wishes, Fiction
When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Pat O'Shea
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 478
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf, Puffin (in association with O.U.P.), Holiday House
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780192728722
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