Fire and Hemlock - Hardcover

Jones, Diana Wynne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688039421 ISBN 13: 9780688039424

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1984

Synopsis

At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.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

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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: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0688039421
• ISBN 13: 9780688039424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 341