Clare Francis
Forfatter af Night Sky
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Værker af Clare Francis
The Joke's on ME: Featuring Jim and ME Mouse 1 eksemplar
Frostnatt Box 1 1 eksemplar
Deceit, Part 2 1 eksemplar
Deceit, Part 1 1 eksemplar
The Royal Babies 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Livros Condensados: O Dom da Vida | Inverno de Lobos | Um Estranho à Espreita | A Viagem (1991) — Forfatter — 7 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Vet in Practice • Johnnie Alone • Wolf Winter • Nightshade • Anne Frank… (1988) 6 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Danger • I Heard the Owl Call My Name • Night Sky • Moonfleet (1984) 4 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Iron Hotel • Betrayal • Nathan's Run • Alice (1900) 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Wolf Winter • This Time Next Week • Silver Sword • No Enemy but Time 2 eksemplarer
Kirjavaliot -No. 46: neljä lyhennettyä menestyste, Yötaivas (Night Sky); Hiomaton timantti (Rough diamond);… (1985) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Volunteers • Outrage • The Incredible Journey • Red Crystal (1986) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Francis, Clare
- Juridisk navn
- Francis, Clare Mary
- Fødselsdato
- 1947-04-17
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Bopæl
- Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK (birth)
London, England, UK
Isle of Wight, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Royal Ballet School
University College London (Economics | Fellow) - Erhverv
- author
writer - Organisationer
- Society of Authors
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Order of the British Empire (Member)
- Kort biografi
- She learned to sail at the age of nine during a summer holiday on the Isle of Wight. Her interest in sailing lead to an unsponsored and unsung solo voyage across the Atlantic, during which she read, listened to music and tried her hand at writing.
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- Værker
- 31
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- 11
- Medlemmer
- 1,860
- Popularitet
- #13,838
- Vurdering
- 3.3
- Anmeldelser
- 23
- ISBN
- 267
- Sprog
- 15
Cecilia Ekbäck has created a remarkable world in this strange and haunting novel. Part whodunnit, part coming-of-age story, part morality play, set in 1717 Swedish Lapland. Six homesteads are dotted around the looming Blackåsen Mountain. Settlers tell tales of the mountain: it was sacred to the indigenous Lapps before the Swedish Church demanded they renounce their "old ways". People have gone missing. And now two girls have found one of the settlers dead upon it. The other settlers say it must have been a wolf.
The girls' family has only just arrived from Ostrobothnia, on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia. They are Finns. Paavo was a fisherman. Maija has a past too. Their daughters' grisly find launches Maija on a quest for the truth. What wolf wields a rapier?
Secrets reveal themselves like snowdrops. Something unspeakable is happening around Blackåsen. And there are people who want it to stay hidden...… (mere)