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Poor Tom's Ghost

Poor Tom's Ghost


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Poor Tom's Ghost--dramatic, wholly convincing, a fascinating intermingling of the centuries--portrays a family whose uncertain bonds are tested and strengthened by a threat from the past. When the Nicholas family first sees the derelict old house near London that has been left to them in Aunt Deb's will, they are sadly disappointed. Thirteen-year-old Roger is the most disappointed, since, having moved place to place all his life with his gifted actor-father, he longs for some measure of stability. Then Roger and his father discover, under peeling wallpaper and rotted paneling, traces of a much older, more graceful house, and their misgivings disappear--until, one night, the house is filled with a sound of wild grieving that Roger traces to an empty room. Only Roger--and later his small stepsister Pippa--sees the ghosts, among them is that of Tom Garland, a well-known actor in Shakespeare's time. But Roger's father, playing Hamlet in the famous National Theatre, is caught up, unknowingly, in Tom's old tragedy. It is a frightened Roger who has to risk his life to find a way to mend the past before the present becomes its tragic echo.

About the Author :
Jane Louise Curry was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, but was in the 5th grade in Kittanning, Pennsylvania when, while browsing the school library's bookshelves, she found and fell in love with the book that would eventually change her life--E. Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle. By high school in Johnstown, Pennsylvania it was forgotten, but when, as a Stanford University graduate student in English Lit, she was studying for a year at London University, she rediscovered it in Foyles bookshop and immediately fell back in love with its ordinary characters caught up in fantastic adventures. Curry had worked as an actress, artist, art teacher, and freelance commercial artist, but at that moment she knew she found her calling. Her first fantasy adventure, Beneath the Hill, appeared while she was teaching at Stanford, and since 1988 she has been writing full time, dividing each year between Los Angeles and London--and lately, Italy. Now, she is working on Shadows, her 39th book, set in Rome.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781504028813
  • Publisher: Open Road Distribution
  • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Distribution
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 142
  • ISBN-10: 1504028813
  • Publisher Date: 24 Nov 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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