- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Red Fox; New edition edition (20 Feb 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099888602
- ISBN-13: 978-0099888604
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 871,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Black Hearts in Battersea originally written in l965 is the second title in the classic `Wolves of Willoughby Chase' series, now reissued with a stunning new cover.
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Simon, hero of "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase", comes to London to study painting. He finds it a sinister place seething with plots, a town of dark alleys, mysterious meetings and still odder disappearances, of the grandeur of eccentric dukes and the evil of conspirators.
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On a fine warm evening in late summer, over a hundred years ago, a boy might have been seen leading a donkey across Southwark Bridge in the city of London. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Simon, the resourceful goose-boy who saves the girl in The WOlves of Willouhghby Chase, travels to London to learn the advancement of his natural taltent for art. But his friend and patron has mysteriously disappeared from the house of the Twites, a Cockney family whose only remotely applealing member is Dido, a gutter-snipe. Simon meets Sophie, an old friend from the orphanage who is now maid to the Duchess of Battersea - an eccentric woman who lost her twin babies. Wolves, Hanoverian, bombs and treachery make this piece of cod-historical fiction a glorious romping adventure. All the other books in this series worth checking out too.
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This is the sequel to the excellent "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase". My daughter read that book in school and then I read this one to her at home. It was a good fun night time read as I got to practice my rather terrible rendition of a French accent, and my daughter got to giggle at me.
But my lack of skill with accents aside, this book was an interesting and engrossing adventure by a first class author. My daughter loved it, and so did I. Suitable for any age from children to adult (although older teens may skip it because it does not look cool to read children's books. That is their loss though, if they do).
Before this book, when I thought of Battersea, it was of the old power station and inner London traffic filled streets. This book paints a picture of a very different Battersea, and one that was very engaging.
But my lack of skill with accents aside, this book was an interesting and engrossing adventure by a first class author. My daughter loved it, and so did I. Suitable for any age from children to adult (although older teens may skip it because it does not look cool to read children's books. That is their loss though, if they do).
Before this book, when I thought of Battersea, it was of the old power station and inner London traffic filled streets. This book paints a picture of a very different Battersea, and one that was very engaging.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Black hearts in Battersea is a fantastic sequel to Joan Aiken's first inher James III series.
The story follows the character Simon, who firstappeared in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase, on his stay in London and hisstumbling across a Hanoverian plot to kill the legitimate Englishking.
A great read for readers of all ages!
The story follows the character Simon, who firstappeared in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase, on his stay in London and hisstumbling across a Hanoverian plot to kill the legitimate Englishking.
A great read for readers of all ages!
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A good yarn
As good as I had remembered from my own childhood. As it is set in a fictitious variant of the past it has not dated as I had feared. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sally Swann
A Rambunctious and Humorous Romp
A highly entertaining adventure of missing persons, mistaken identities and Hanoverian conspiracies, set in the contrasting dark and nefarious streets of London and the gloomy... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2008 by thomasleaf
A stunning book for children of all ages
I read Black Hearts to my wife every night, and we both roll about laughing. Such rich, Dickensian characters, with Dido Twite standing out as one of the great figures of English... Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2006 by amantedofado
Delightful
This is a wonderfully whimsical book. I love the mixture of historical detail and fantasy. This series of books are what I would class as magic realism and I loved them. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2001 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
An absolutely MARVELLOUS book
I have had read and reread this fantastic book.I think it would be a great reading book for 9+over. This book is really vivid and imaginative with the Hanoverians occupying... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2001
A pleasant witty fantasy
I read this book as a child and reread it as an adult. Set in an alternative history stream, with the wicked Hanoverians attempting to remove the Stuart king from the throne, it is... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2000
Excellent Reworking of Victorian Melodrama for Children
Although this book is a sort-of sequel to the wonderful 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase' it's really the beginning of an alternative-history cycle in a Britain where James II was... Read more
Published on 10 Jun 1999
exciting , satisfying and fun historical(ish) adventure
This is the second of a septet of books by Joan Aiken, and follows the adventures of Simon, the boy first encountered in the 'Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 1999
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