Book Description
Product Description
From the Back Cover
A girl with Notions.
A lovelorn student.
And Ione, alone in the summerhouse, pondering the Meaning of Life.
Add one eccentric professor for a sunny extravaganza of chocolate fudge cake, strawberries - and a mad moon-dance at midnight.
And that's just the beginning...
Sparky new editions of multi-award-winning author Anne Fine's first two novels, The Summer-house Loon and The Other Darker Ned.
'Extraordinary and hilarious events' Guardian
'A book with deep understanding, wisdom and compassion... tosses the reader between laughter and tears with expert dexterity' Junior Bookshelf
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About the Author
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave.She lives in the North-East.
'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young' School Librarian
'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work' Scotsman
'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
