Fire and Hemlock - Softcover

Jones, Diana Wynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425095045 ISBN 13: 9780425095041

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 1986

Synopsis

Preparing to return to college, Polly is distracted by a photograph, a supernatural story, and memories that seem unrelated to her life and enters a world of intrigue, magic, mystery, and love

About this title

Review:

“...Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears...”
Publishers Weekly

From the Back Cover:

Polly has always loved the fire and hemlock photograph, which hangs, above her bed, with its suggestion of mysterious dark figures and undiscovered secrets.

But now, it sparks memories in her that don's seem to exist any more. Memories of Thomas Lynn, who became her greatest friend... Memories of the stories they made up together – adventures in which Tom is a great hero and Polly is his assistant... Memories that these adventures had a nasty habit of coming true...

What has happened in the years between' Why has Tom been erased from Polly's mind, and form the rest of the world as well? And why is Polly so sure that she must have done something dreadful? Determined to uncover the awful truth, she casts her mind back ten years to when it all started .At the funeral...

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0425095045
• ISBN 13: 9780425095041
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback