Marianne Dreams

Marianne Dreams

by Catherine Storr (Author)

Synopsis

'I could get in,' Marianne thought, 'if there was a person inside the house. There has got to be a person. I can't get in unless there is somebody there. 'Why isn't there someone in the house?' she cried to the empty world around her. Marianne is no child prodigy at drawing. Confined to her bed with an illness she finds a pencil in her great-grandmother's workbox, but the house she draws is as unsatisfying as always - like a shaky doll's house with grass as unlike anything growing as ever. But that night she dreams and rediscovers her drawing in a completely new world. Returning to this world night after night, Marianne encounters a strange but familiar boy and the house takes on an increasingly ominous significance for both of them...Funny, unusual, indefinable, the spirit of Marianne Dreams lingers long after the final page.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Oct 2006

ISBN 10: 0571231454
ISBN 13: 9780571231454
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr is on its way to becoming a classic of children's and young adult fiction.

Author Bio
Catherine Storr was born and lived most of her life in London. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many went on to become classics. Marianne Dreams was made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990.