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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0224017977
- ISBN 13 9780224017978
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages170
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing.vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.a very nice copy.no inscriptions and not priceclipped. Seller Inventory # 5trtdgtc
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 170 pages. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly When his father sends him to England to live with a cousin, Cosmo faces t he usual problems of being a new kid in school. Then ghosts of lo ng-dead boys come to haunt him, and Cosmo learns the tragic secre t affecting his family. PW found that this book conveys the magic of Aiken's stylish writing and vigorous invention. Copyright 19 86 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out o f print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Writing see ms to be as natural to Joan Aiken as breathing; her imagination i s as untrammeled as ever, the precise construction of the astonis hing plot lends conviction, and her style is as witty and sparkli ng with images. -The Horn Book Through interactions between char acters, Aiken brings out the bittersweet ironies of friendships b oth otherworldly and in the here-and-now. Her sense of timing unf urls the mystery at just the right pace, giving the curse its rig htful aura of power. -Booklist --This text refers to an out of pr int or unavailable edition of this title. Excerpt. ® Reprinted b y permission. All rights reserved. The Shadow Guests 1MEETINGNobo dy was at the airport to meet him.One of the stewardesses had tol d him that there was a place called a Rendezvous Area where you c ould go and wait if your friends hadn't turned up when the plane landed. So that was where he went. It was next to the information desk, a place with a set of plush-covered benches striped in pin k and brown with a few anxious people sitting on them and gazing about in every direction. But Cosmo preferred to stand, leaning a gainst the trolley that held his luggage--two cases, a carry-on b ag, and a tennis racket.He stared at the mass of people, streamin g up and down the airport concourse, and wondered how he would ev er know which one was looking for him.Cousin Eunice will probably come to meet you herself, his father had said. But I suppose she might be giving alecture or tutoring somebody that day; then she 'd have to arrange for someone else to come.Could any of these wo men be Cousin Eunice? A fat blond one with pouches under her eyes : he hoped not. A thin dark one in a corduroy windcheater: she lo oked nice, but she walked straight past. A younger one--no, she h ad a girl of about six with her. Cousin Eunice was not married an d had no children.Have I met her? Was she there when we visited U ncle Ted that time?He remembered the place--most clearly and haun tingly he remembered it--not the house, but the way a fold of haz elwood ran down to the river, and a brook, where he and Mark had built a dam, and a deep dark millpond and a weir, and a footbridg e by which you went across to the island where the mill was. A hu ge field shaped like a half moon. If anything could cheer him at the moment--bat nothing could, really--it would be the prospect o f living at Courtoys Mill.No, Cousin Eunice wasn't there at that time, his father had said. She was away at Cambridge, studying. T here had been something bitten back about his voice--the way peop le talk when they are concealing things considered unsuitable for the young. His father had talked like that most of the time in t he last month or two. So--was there something peculiar about Cous in Eunice? Surely not; his father seemed to put a lot of trust in her. She'll look after you all right and get you all the stuff y ou need for school, he had said. And I'll come to England as soon as I can.But where was Cousin Eunice now? He shivered, feelingho rribly isolated all of a sudden. Thirty hours in the plane was no joke--and then to have nobody meet you--People were rushing up a nd down the concourse like lemmings, carrying their luggage or pu shing it on trolleys. The loudspeaker added to the frantic atmosp here by a constant stream of urgent appeals.This is your last cal l for Air France flight four-oh-three to Marseilles now at gate s even. Will Mr. Panizelos on Olympic flight ni. Seller Inventory # 823o
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