- Children of divorced parents, Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Urns
Polly has two sets of memories... One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed. But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love — and perhaps Polly herself — will be lost.
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Earnest, grave, intimate and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Collins, Berkley, Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783407783769
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A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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