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Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.
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Earnest, intimate, grave and warm.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Philippa Pearce
- First published
- February 23, 1999
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- HarperTrophy, Is Bankasi Kültür Yayinlari, Greenwillow Books
- Editions
- 56
- Language
- und, cat, dan, German
- ISBN
- 9788742230107
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First sentence
“IF, standing alone on the back doorstep, Tom allowed himself to weep tears, they were tears of anger.”
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