The River at Green Knowe
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Publishing Details
The River at Green Knowe
By (Author) Lucy M. Boston
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
3rd April 2000
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
112
Width 125mm, Height 196mm, Spine 9mm
100g
Description
'What a lot of islands the river makes,' said Ida. 'We must go exploring and sail around them all.' And so begins a wonderful, magical summer. Ida, Oscar and Ping are staying with Ida's great-aunt at the ancient, river-encircled house of Green Knowe. They set out to chart the river in the canoe, and soon discover that it has some surprising and mysterious secrets.A further adventure in the well loved Green Knowe series, from Carnegie Medal winner Lucy Boston.
Author Bio
Lucy Boston was born in 1892 in Southport, Lancashire, one of six children. She went to a Quaker school in Surrey, and was married in 1917. She later moved to a beautiful manor house near Cambridge which provided the setting for her Green Knowe stories. She started writing at the age of sixty and won the Carnegie Medal for A Stranger of Green Knowe in 1961. Her books are illustrated by her son, Peter. Lucy Boston died in 1990.
