No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins. Dreams begin to haunt her - dreams of another country, another culture, another time, and of shadowy people whom she feels are watching her. Who are they, and what do they want?
Author | Penelope Lively |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Year of publication | 2004 |
Number of pages | 154 |
Language | English |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN-10 | 1903252180 |
ISBN-13 | 9781903252185 |
Illustrator | Alexy Pendle |
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