6/24/2023 0 Comments Midnight is a place by joan aiken![]() ![]() "For sheer charm it’s hard to beat these wonderful, dead-pan comic tales about one family’s adventures-nearly always on a Monday-with ghosts, witches, time travel, the Furies and every sort of magic." Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children 2008 The family who dwells in and out of magical worlds transcends fantasy and enters the world of classic, entrancing literature. "In a singularly important publishing even, the first complete collection of Aiken’s 24 beloved Armitage cycle of stories appears here for the first time. ".innovative storyteller Aiken again pays tribute to Jane Austen in a cheerful spinoff of Sense and Sensibility." Readers captivated with Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility will thoroughly enjoy Aiken's crystal gazing, but so will those unacquainted with Austen." ![]() "Aiken's story is rich with humor, and her language is compelling. ![]() "Others may try, but nobody comes close to Aiken in writing sequels to Jane Austen." With fierce determination and irrepressible spirits, Eliza carves out a life full of adventure and artistic endeavor. An intelligent, creative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered by the strictures of her time, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her way to London, and eventually travels the world, all the while seeking to solve the mystery of her parentage. A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life.īecause she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. ![]()
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