On Sun, 18 May 1997, Mala Ghoshal (NC) wrote:
> there's a wonderful book by joan aiken called Black Hearts in Battersea (i
> think) about two children escaping from their horrible governess and her
> evil plots. was that the one you were thinking of, emily? she also has a
> collection of scary short stories for kids called A Touch of Chill or
> something like that that gave me nightmares for years.
> mala
>
There's a wonderful SERIES of books by Joan Aiken (as well as some
wonderful collections of short stories like A SMALL PINCH OF WEATHER).
"Black Hearts in Battersea" was the sequel to "The Wolves of Willoughby
Chase", and set off a whole series, mostly featuring the young heroine
Dido Twite: "Night Birds in Nantucket" was one of the best. They are all
set in the early nineteenth century in an alternative history in which
England is ruled by Jacobites rather than Hanoverians (and, hence, no
American War of Independence).
Edward James
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