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When Marnie Was There (Essential Modern Classics) by [Joan G. Robinson]

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Anna hasn’t a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn’t all she seems…

A major motion picture adaptation by Studio Ghibli, creators of SPIRITED AWAY and ARRIETTY.

Sent away from her foster home one long, hot summer to a sleepy Norfolk village by the sea, Anna dreams her days away among the sandhills and marshes.

She never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, someone who doesn’t judge Anna for being ordinary and not-even-trying. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than Marnie vanishes…

Reading age

9 - 11 years
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290 pages
Language

English
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HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Publication date

29 May 2014
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978-0007104772
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Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognises - and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays - and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed... --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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“Beautifully planned, hauntingly written, these chapters hold a thrilling intensity… The most striking novel in its genre since Tom’s Midnight Garden”
Times Literary Supplement

“Extraordinarily potent fantasy… the climax is both thrilling and intensely moving.”
The Spectator

“Deeply perceptive”
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KA11ZI0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks (29 May 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3595 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages

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Andrew Murphy

Beautifully descriptive

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This is a wonderful book which I loved as a child. It's just as good to read again now, years later. It's wonderfully descriptive with both the location and the relationships brought to life. My niece is enjoying the book now - like other books, it seems to appeal down the generations.

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Mum outnumbered

Great read

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This is a lovely story just like the film!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 February 2020

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Having watched the film, at the insistence of my granddaughter, I felt I had to read the book. I wasn't disappointed and now feel I would like to see the film again 💕
I'm very grateful to tr author's daughter for her postlude.
Hayao Miyazaki passed on last year, he seemed to have been so taken with the story and that led him to make the film 😊
Joy of joys

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LGX23

Touching and Hopeful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 January 2016

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A story of loneliness and friendship, of introverts and extroverts and the love between both family and friends.
I read this as a way of passing a long break... a few hours later I have a new favorite book.
The main character is one I can identify with on a deeply personal level; not to mention this is one of the few things to get me misty eyed.
That's how I knew this was well worth the price paid. My only (very) minor gripe is that there is no hardcover for this.
Regardless, this story is wonderful. The characters are captivating, the situations relatable even to this day and the ending is as touching as it is hopeful.

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Leah_Rose

Warm, and lighthearted

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 April 2018

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I jut finished this book and it was beautiful, It tells the story of family and friendship. I found myself tearing up in a few places even though nothing particularly sad happened. It is a very easy read and very lighthearted which is exactly was I was looking for would recommend it from 8+
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Baldygordy

Fantastic !!! and at last soon to be a film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 January 2014

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I first heard this story as a play on BBC radio 4, my wife and I loved the name so much we named our daughter 'Marnie' after it. That was 7 years ago, I am so pleased that Amazon are stocking it now especially as they are making it into a film (animation) It should be released this summer.
The story although sad at first gets intriguing and keeps you hooked until the last page and the fantastic ending. I can't wait until I can give it to our daughter to read. (the edition I got is the Collins Modern Classic which has an interesting postscript)

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psychostudent

A great story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 March 2020

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This is a great story. I read it in primary school and decided to read it again fifty years later! It is about having a sense of place, a sense of belonging. Lovely story.

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Derek Jeffery

Don't give up looking for peace of mind.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 November 2018

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When Marnie Was There (Essential Modern Classics) deals beautifully with the hunger we all have to belong, to fit in and find our own identity. As they say, somewhere in the world, a person is a person because of other people.

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