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It all started with the cottage. Strange creaks and groans in the middle of the night heralded even stranger events, for it seemed as though the very foundations were moving. And on Sunday morning, when the Powley family returned from church, it was to find the adjoining cottage collapsed and their own home uninhabitable.
Something terrifying was happening in the fields, too. When George and Josie went to see the result of the heavy rain they were suddenly caught up in an amazing natural drama. Josie found herself separated from her brother by a huge chasm, and her fear and panic turned to awe when she realized she was on an island surrounded by heaving, shifting land.
Set in Norfolk in the late nineteenth century David Rees follows the lives of an ordinary family, set against extraordinary events.
It all started with the cottage. Strange creaks and groans in the middle of the night heralded even stranger events, for it seemed as though the very foundations were moving. And on Sunday morning, when the Powley family returned from church, it was to find the adjoining cottage collapsed and their own home uninhabitable.
Something terrifying was happening in the fields, too. When George and Josie went to see the result of the heavy rain they were suddenly caught up in an amazing natural drama. Josie found herself separated from her brother by a huge chasm, and her fear and panic turned to awe when she realized she was on an island surrounded by heaving, shifting land.
Set in Norfolk in the late nineteenth century David Rees follows the lives of an ordinary family, set against extraordinary events.
128 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1977
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David Rees
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David Rees was born in London in 1936, but lived most of his adult life in Devon, where for many years he taught English Literature at Exeter University and at California State University, San Jose. In 1984, he took early retirement in order to write full-time. Author of forty-two books, he is best known for his children's novel The Exeter Blitz, which in 1978 was awarded the Carnegie Medal (UK), and The Milkman's On His Way, which, having survived much absurd controversy in Parliament, is now regarded as something of a gay classic. He also won The Other Award (UK) for his historical novel The Green Bough of Liberty. David Rees died in 1993.
David Rees was born in London in 1936, but lived most of his adult life in Devon, where for many years he taught English Literature at Exeter University and at California State University, San Jose. In 1984, he took early retirement in order to write full-time. Author of forty-two books, he is best known for his children's novel The Exeter Blitz, which in 1978 was awarded the Carnegie Medal (UK), and The Milkman's On His Way, which, having survived much absurd controversy in Parliament, is now regarded as something of a gay classic. He also won The Other Award (UK) for his historical novel The Green Bough of Liberty. David Rees died in 1993.
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