Heathrow Nights - Softcover

Mark, Jan

 
9780340774113: Heathrow Nights
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0340774118 ISBN 13: 9780340774113
Verlag: Hodder Children's Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

After his father's death and his mother's swift remarriage, Russell begins to feel that he has a lot in common with Hamlet. So he is slightly appalled when he and his mates, Adam and Curt, manage to ruin the entire play during an excursion to the Theatre Royal.



Banned from the school trip, and determined to keep their misdemeanour from their parents, the boys head for London. With little money and nowhere to stay, they end up at Heathrow Airport, wandering between terminals in an effort to remain undetected. As the days pass, Russell retreats further into himself and his memories and the past threatening to overwhelm him. Eventually, he is left alone, and must choose between escaping his troubles and confronting their cause ...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jan Mark was one of the most distinguished writers for children of recent times. She won the Carnegie Medal twice - for Thunder and Lightnings (1976) and Handles (1983). Other acclaimed titles include They Do Things Differently There, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award and The Eclipse of the Century, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her science fiction novels - The Ennead, Divide and Rule and Aquarius (all Hodder) - are acclaimed as masterpieces. A former teacher, Jan came from a London family, spent many years living in Norfolk but, for the last twenty years of her life, made her home in Oxford, where she died in 2006.

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Verlag
Hodder Children's Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340774118
ISBN 13 
9780340774113
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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