The Dark Behind the Curtain (Point - Original Fiction) - Softcover
It started as a school play - but it became something far more sinister and deadly. What was the origin of the evil beginning to haunt the actors? Gillian Cross has won the Carnegie Medal, the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award.
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Gillian Cross is one of Britain's most prominent children's authors. She has won both the major awards - the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Carnegie Medal - and many others.
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"Probably the best ghost story of my childhood . . . when I think back to my favourite books ever, this is one of them."
--Amazon reviewer
"compulsive reading"
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"a thoroughly nightmarish and at the same time utterly convincing ghost story"
--Times Educational Supplement
"a well-wrought plot . . . vividly-drawn characters, and a unity of setting, oppressively enclosed."
--Times Literary Supplement
--Amazon reviewer
"compulsive reading"
Junior Bookshelf
"a thoroughly nightmarish and at the same time utterly convincing ghost story"
--Times Educational Supplement
"a well-wrought plot . . . vividly-drawn characters, and a unity of setting, oppressively enclosed."
--Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherScholastic Point
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0590703498
- ISBN 13 9780590703499
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Ex school copy with usual stamps and marks inside, two staples to front endpaper with slight associated rust marks, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. Cover protected by clear library sleeve. ; Nice tight copy. Cover artwork and illustrations uncredited. ; B&W Illustrations; 208 pages; Jackus hadn't wanted to take part in the school play, but gradually he was drawn into the story as the real cruelty and despair at the root of the play began to haunt the actors. Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber, stronger than the law, stranger than death itself? Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 24140
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