Paperback
Age range: + years old
Publication Date: 03/04/2000
There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepool among the rocks on a Norfolk beach during the summer holidays. A shadow begins to be cast over the children's innocent conversations and gaucherie, revealing their anxieties about themselves, and the constraints of their cosseted lives, as the outside world - of other children, dancing lessons, adults, illness, funerals, money, excursions in landaus, future schools - impinges in Eustace and Hilda's intimacies and fantasies.
- ISBN:
- 9780571203826
- 9780571203826
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Age range:
- + years old
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 03-04-2000
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions (mm):
- 178x110x18mm
- Weight:
- 0.2kg
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