by Joan Aiken · Red Fox · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099411864
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«The Wolves of Willoughby Chase» is Joan Aiken's children's adventure and fantasy novel, published by Red Fox in paperback (192 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century England, cousins Bonnie and Sylvia are left in the care of the severe governess Miss Slighcarp while Bonnie's parents travel by sea. Accompanied by Simon, the goose boy, they flee and plan to reclaim Willoughby Chase mansion, while wolves prowl the countryside and make the journey even more dangerous.
First installment of the The Wolves Chronicles saga, set in a fictional nineteenth-century England.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 11, in the realm of fantasy and classic adventures.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
