Book description
>In the grand and moated Plague House, served since the start of the
war only by the spiteful charlady, Mrs Lovage, live beautiful Elizabeth
and her thirteen-year-old twins -plump pyromaniac George and Sissy,
always struggling with her mother for her brother s love. Into this
strange household comes Lump - otherwise known as Hush - intent on
saving the world. But initial confidence wavers as stress, conflict,
fire and death are encountered in an inspired and memorable finale.
From the author of Cobweb Walking, The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel,
The Tea-Planter s Daughter
and
Shining Agnes
comes a wonderfully mythic and vibrant novel of the imagination.>
>In the grand and moated Plague House, served since the start of the
war only by the spiteful charlady, Mrs Lovage, live beautiful Elizabeth
and her thirteen-year-old twins -plump pyromaniac George and Sissy,
always struggling with her mother for her brother s love. Into this
strange household comes Lump - otherwise known as Hush - intent on
saving the world. But initial confidence wavers as stress, conflict,
fire and death are encountered in an inspired and memorable finale.
From the author of Cobweb Walking, The Wedding of Jayanthi Mandel,
The Tea-Planter s Daughter
and
Shining Agnes
comes a wonderfully mythic and vibrant novel of the imagination.>
