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A Sally Lockhart Mystery: The Tiger in the Well: Book Three
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Item Description...
A stranger is watching. . . .
It's 1881, and life has been good to Sally Lockhart. Unlike most Victorian women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally's whole world is about to collapse. A stranger emerges, claiming to be both her husband and Harriet's father and threatening all that she has–her business, her child, her very sanity. Sally realizes with growing horror that there is a guiding hand behind this deceit: someone who hates her so passionately that he has devoted years to bringing about her ruin. And there's only one man that could possibly be. . . .
From the award-winning author of His Dark Materials comes a richly layered adventure of suspicion and intrigue–and the third acclaimed Sally Lockhart mystery.
Philip Pullman won the prestigious 2005 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in honor of the body of his work. He is the author of the internationally renowned His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, winner of the Carnegie Medal; The Subtle Knife, winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award; The Amber Spyglass, the first-ever children's book to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award; and Lyra's Oxford, all of which are currently available from Listening Library. You can visit the author's website at www.philip-pullman.com. |
Item Specifications...
Dimensions: Length: 6" Width: 5.1" Height: 1.2"
Weight: 0.65 lbs.
Binding CD
Release Date Sep 9, 2008
Publisher Listening Library (Audio)
ISBN 0739371533
EAN 9780739371534
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