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The house in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively · Booklabria

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The house in Norham Gardens

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First published: 1974
Language: English
Editions: 7

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Mystery
Children's stories
Space and time
Stone age
Set in: England

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