Description
A terrifying bargain . . . a sinister stranger . . . George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. The only thing that spoils it are the visits, twice a year, by a dark and mysterious stranger. Soon George's world is turned upside down by the secrets his family have been keeping from him. George becomes caught in a world of intrigue and mystery - and someone out in the fog, watching him . . . Winner of the inaugural Guardian Award for Children's Fiction
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
ISBN-13
978-1-78295-059-2 (9781782950592)
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Person
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1996.