The Time of the Ghost
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Cover Story
Through star filled skies on Christmas Eve Kay Harker, in a sleigh pulled by eight unicorns and driven by Herne the Hunter, returns in triumph to Tatchester. The illustration on the cover of this issue of BfK is by Faith Jaques and is taken from The Box of Delights, a newly illustrated edition of John Masefield's classic children's book, abridged by Patricia Crampton and published by Heinemann, 0 434 95052 1, £7.95. A paperback edition (without colour plates) is available from Fontana Lion (0 00 572415 9, £1.50). We are grateful to Heinemann and Fontana for help in using this illustration.
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The Time of the Ghost
This author has a great capacity for creating challenging fantasies but my stamina began to flag at the start of this novel, which seemed to this novel, which seemed too mystifying to be engaging. I'm glad I persevered, but it will take a doughty youngster to be as forbearing. 'One of us must have got into Monigan's clutches in the future somehow, and come back to tell us now'. Four sisters and their friends become enmeshed in a past/present shuttle, which concerns their past invocation of a revengeful pagan goddess, and centres, in the present, on a dangerously ill girl, unsure of her own identity, who is fighting for life in a hospital bed ... or could it be the life of one of her visitors?