The Dark Stairs
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Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.
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A Herculeah Jones mystery which may seem like yet another horror book but Betsy Byars invests it with her style and those characters of hers who are frail and human. Herculeah has a 'private eye' for a mum, a detective for a dad and an insatiable appetite for horror films. This may not be the best of Byars but the plot is tense and exciting. The main character and her friend Meat, playing second-fiddle to the story here, may yet turn out to have more than two dimensions.
