From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too. But you'd be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary. The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it's hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close - until perhaps, now. When a letter arrives from Australia, the whole family is plunged into fear that now, for the first time, their secret is about to be exposed . . . Sylvia Waugh's extraordinary debut novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction Award.
| ISBN: | 9781782954323 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2014 |
| Author: | Sylvia Waugh |
| Publisher: | Red Fox Classics an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Classic Literature Fantasy / Magical Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dolls, figures and similar toys Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours |