Theo and Matilda

Billington, R.

ISBN 10: 0333529944 / ISBN 13: 9780333529942

Published by Macmillan U.K., London, United Kingdom, 1990

About this Item

343 pp. Piece torn from blank fep. due to printer's gluing/cutting error: otherwise fine, not price-clipped. A compelling multilayered, witty and surprising novel, which tell s the story of Theo & Matilda's relationship through four windows into history: 770 A.D., 1540, 1880 and 1980! "Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden.Be remembered." T. S. Elliot - 'Burnt Norton' from 'The Four Quartets'. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Theo and Matilda
• Publisher: Macmillan U.K., London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333529944
• ISBN 13: 9780333529942
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

In 770 or thereabouts a young peasant boy is taken into a monastery because he has the gift of song. He is christened Theodore. To the same monastery comes Princess Matilda, whose husband suffers an unlucky accident with a swarm of bees.