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978-1-84659-066-5
Fiction
January 2009
Paperback with flaps
13 x 20 cm
528 pages
£8.99

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About the Author
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was born of a Scottish mother and a father descended from an old Huguenot family. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School, which he left at sixteen to work in the City Office of the Anglo-American Oil Company, writing in his spare time under the pseudonym Walter Ramal.

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What the Critics say...

‘One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.’
Alison Lurie

‘A great book.’
New York Times

‘For centuries to come this book will inspire imaginative people.’
Rebecca West

‘... a triumphant work of fiction: a portrait of a complex heroine who the reader will ultimately find quite as compelling as Jane [Eyre] or Cathy". You will be "charmed and amazed by this odd, creepy tale.’
Observer

‘It sticks like a splinter in the mind..’
Angela Carter

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Either because my mother was shy of me, or because she thought vulgar attention would be bad for me, she seldom took me far abroad. Now and then Pollie carried me down to the village to tea with her mother, and once or twice I was taken to church.

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