- Hardcover: 191 pages
- Publisher: Collins (1971)
- ISBN-10: 0001602209
- ISBN-13: 978-0001602205
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 12.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,260,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When David, Peter, Mary, Dickie and Tom form the Lone Pine Club, they're determined to have lots of adventures. When they start bumping into strangers in the hills and the friendly Mrs Thurston begins acting oddly, they realize something mysterious is going on.
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This is Saville's very first Lone Pine novel, written in the 1940s (as so many of his contemporary writers novels were) and therefore displaying all the good old-fashioned honest children's writing techniques of the time. It is a gripping adventure, set in the Shropshire hills (all the more real for being set in a real place which can be visited) in the Welsh Border country. This novel introduces us to the children who are to become the founder members of the Lone Pine Club. They soon find themselves embroiled in an adventure full of wartime spies and various assorted baddies. The novel is gripping without the violent sensationalism of some current children's novels and culminates in a spectacular damburst, the description of which completely absorbs the reader in such a way that he or she actually feels part of the story.
Malcolm Saville is a storyteller par excellence and is now the subject of a growing literary society which often meets at the story settings in Shropshire, Sussex and other locations.
He died in 1982 but there is still sufficient interest from older readers to keep the society well and truly active.
Malcolm Saville's books are strongly recommended for children of discerning parents who like to keep an eye on the sort of literature they read. There is no sex or violence but this doesn't detract from the fast-moving action contained in the novels.
Like certain films, novels like this just aren't written any more!
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