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 The Shadow Guests - Joan Aiken
 The Shadow Guests - Joan Aiken ... some eerie friends. The author also wrote Midnight is a Place, The Whispering Mountain and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.Newest Review: ... of Britain and throughout the intervening centuries the Cortoys family is doomed to lose it’s first born son in ... more ... battle, and for their Mother to die of grief. Family documents show that this has happened, down the ages, through the crusades to the Battle
of Britain. So Cosmo’s family left London for Australia, as far away as possible, to try to escape, and then, somehow, found out that they couldn’t. And Cosmo’s mother and older brother walked out into the desert to try to break the circle. Eunice explains it like this: "I exp...more |
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The Shadow Guests - Joan Aiken: Not just Shadows (1166 words)
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The book starts, as so many books do, with a journey. Cosmo Curtoys has just arrived from Australia. He’s waiting for his cousin Eunice to collect him from the airport, and she’s late. He’s had to leave his home because his mother and elder brother, Mark, have walked off together into the desert. They’re officially ‘missing’, but everyone knows that they can’t have survived. Grim? Well, yes, this isn’t a book that deals wholly with ‘easy’ things, but "The Shadow Guests" is not a grim book. It is, however, quite a complicated one, certainly a good story, but a story that doesn’t just have ... Read the complete review
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