Pobby and Dingan - Hardcover

Rice, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375411275 ISBN 13: 9780375411274

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Synopsis

When Pobby and Dingan, the imaginary friends of Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the lives of Kellyanne and her family begin to fall apart, and her brother, Ashmol, enlists the aid of the entire town to find them before it is too late. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

Ben Rice lives in London. This is his first book.

From the Inside Flap

ngan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of an opal miner, but only Kellyanne can see them. Pobby and Dingan are imaginary.<br>Ashmol Williamson, Kellyanne's brother, thinks his sister should grow up and stop being such a fruit loop. Until the day, that is, when Pobby and Dingan disappear--the same day that Ashmol and Kellyanne's father is accused of "ratting" (poaching on someone else's land), the worst sin an opal miner can commit.<br>As Kellyanne--grief-stricken and suddenly, mysteriously, ill--begins to fade away, Ashmol recruits the whole town in a search for Pobby and Dingan. In the end, however, he discovers that only he can find them, and that he can only find them if he too believes they are real.<br>Funny, deeply moving and told without a wasted word, Pobby and Dingan--the debut of a prodigiously gifted new writer--is an enchanting story.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375411275
• ISBN 13: 9780375411274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 93