Title:
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TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN
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By: |
Philippa Pearce, Victor Watson |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
190962120X |
ISBN 13: |
9781909621206 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
1 September, 2014 |
Edition: |
Main Market ed |
Pages: |
240 |
Description: |
Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen - and everything changes. Outside the door is a garden - a garden that shouldn't exist. Are the children there ghosts, or is it Tom who is the ghost? |
Synopsis: |
When the grandfather clock downstairs mysteriously strikes thirteen, it seems to be connected with a magical garden. Tom - who is lonely and unhappy - has been told the garden is no longer there, but he discovers it, enters it, and makes friends with Hattie. While he wants to stay in the garden for ever, Hattie yearns to grow up and escape. Tom works out that the garden somehow belongs to the past, and that Hattie probably died long ago. He struggles to outwit the passing of time but he fails, and everything seems to have ended in disaster. However, there is a brilliant and unexpected ending in which Hattie's past and Tom's present are happily reconciled. Illustrated by Susan Einzig, with an Afterword by Victor Watson. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Macmillan Collector's Library |
Returns: |
Returnable |