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The house in Norham Gardens

Penelope Lively · 1974

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A fourteen-year-old girl uses a painted shield from New Guinea to contact various native owners of the shield during different periods of time, and when their presences threaten to materialize in the present, she offers to return the shield to them and lay the ghosts to rest.

Book details

Year
1974
Language
English
Publisher
Dutton
Editions
4
Pages
154
ISBN
9780525323150

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