This was a book written for children.
Kingswood, Surrey, World's Work, 1973
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Book Details:Hardback edition published by Kingswood, Surrey, World's Work, 1973. First Edition Sleeve notes:Katherine, Gwen and Sarah are reluctantly sent to Manpool to stay with Aunt Marion while their parents take the rare chance of a holiday abroad. Aunt Marion is wealthy, but penny pinching and she lives in a large strange house outside an industrial city with her two retainers - the Captain and Mrs Castle. What is the relationship between these two and Aunt Marion? Why are the girls not told about Hugo, an artist living in a lodge in Aunt Marion’s grounds? In an attempt to unravel what has not been explained, Katherine and her sisters land themselves in trouble. At intervals through their stay however, Katherine is strangely comforted by fleeting glimpses of a strange grey figure of a woman. The climax of her trouble comes when she aids a Pakistani boy, an illegal immigrant, and has to face Aunt Marion’s straight laced reaction. This leads to unexpected disaster, and to unexpected comfort too, in the face of it, from the figure in grey. Book source:Peter Stevenson |
