Night Birds On Nantucket

Oct 3, 2024 12:38 AM

Author:Joan Aiken

Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind.

Reviews

A zany, original historical fantasy

—— Sunday Telegraph

Joan Aiken is the best contemporary writer of historical-fantasy we have - and I would not make such a generalisation lightly. This is a quite exceptional book.

—— Susan Hill

Altogther an invigorating book, in which the wit and nonsense make such a sparkling fizz together that it is hard to tell one from the other

—— Times Literary Supplement

A writer of wild humour

—— Oxford Companion to Children's Literarture

Jill Murphy is one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land

—— Observer

Millions of young readers have fallen under the spell of Jill Murphy's Worst Witch

—— Sunday Express

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