Marianne Dreams (Puffin Books) - Softcover

Storr, Catherine; Watts, Marjorie-Ann

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9780140302097: Marianne Dreams (Puffin Books)

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ISBN 10: 0140302093 ISBN 13: 9780140302097

Publisher: Puffin, 1975

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Soon after Marianne found the pencil in the old box, she began to have strange dreams. Then the truth dawned on her - whatever she drew during the day, she would dream about at night. As the dreams become more sinister, she wonders if she is to be trapped for ever in a cycle of pictures and dreams.

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Book Description:

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr is on its way to becoming a classic of children's and young adult fiction.

About the Author:

Catherine Storr (1913-2001) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for the Clever Polly series. She was born in London, and attended St Paul's Girls' School, and went on to study English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge. She tried unsuccessfully to become a novelist but without giving up this ambition she studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She worked at the Middlesex Hospital. Afterwards, while regularly producing new children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books, from 1966 to the early seventies.
She married in 1942 and had had three daughters. She divorced in 1970 and remarried the economist Lord Balogh (1905-1985).

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