A Pack of Lies - Hardcover

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192716123 ISBN 13: 9780192716125

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

When M.C.C. Berkshire comes into Ailsa and her mother's antiques shop, he turns their lives upside down. He moves in, sleeps on the old bed in the shop (for sale), and corners every potential customer with a specially made-up story about an item in the shop. At the end of each tale the customers are so entranced that they buy the item! Suddenly the shop is a success, with M.C.C. telling a pack of lies to suit every taste. There's a whodunnit, a spoof on Dracula, a Victorian fantasy, and nine other funny and fascinating stories. Soon Ailsa and her mother start wondering whether they should encourage M.C.C.'s lies, and without realizing it, Ailsa begins to fall in love with the magical stranger. But who is this amazing character? At the end of the book, we suddenly find out...or do we? GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN is the winner of the 1987 Whitbread Children's Novel Award for A Little Lower than the Angels, also published by Oxford.

About this title

Book Description:

Winner of the 1988 Carnegie Medal

Synopsis:

A stranger comes into Ailsa and her mother's antiques shop and turns their lives upside down. He corners every potential customer and can sell them anything. This book won the Carnegie Medal 1988 and is written by the winner of the 1987 Whitbread Children's Novel Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0192716123
• ISBN 13: 9780192716125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192