The Clock Tower Ghost - Hardcover

Kemp, Gene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571117678 ISBN 13: 9780571117673

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1981

Synopsis

Awful Amanda, a mean, spiteful, greedy bully, finds herself living in a clock tower that is haunted by the ghost of a proud, rich man with a strangely familiar face.

About this title

About the Author:

Gene Kemp has established herself as one of the most inventive and imaginative of British children's writers. She was born in 1926 and grew up in Staffordshire. After studying at Exeter University she taught, married and had three children. She is best-known for her Cricklepit School stories, including The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, a winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Rights Award, Charlie Lewis Plays for Time, which was runner-up for the Whitbread Award in 1985, and Just Ferret, which was a runner-up for the Smarties Award in 1990. In addition, she has written The Clock Tower Ghost, Jason Bodger and the Priory Ghost (short stories) and a poetry anthology. She also writes for TV and radio. In 1984 she was awarded an honorary degree for her books, which have been translated into numerous languages. She lives in Devon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0571117678
• ISBN 13: 9780571117673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 89