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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase stage version Edition
Author(s): Joan Aiken (Author), Russ Tunney (Author)
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date: 2 May 2013
- Edition: stage version
- Language: English
- Print length: 96 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848423381
- ISBN-13: 9781848423381
Book Description
A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and a very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp. The opening of the Channel Tunnel has led to hungry wolves roaming Britain, but this is not the only danger that cousins Bonnie and Sylvia, and their friend Simon the Goose-boy, must face. Full of unforgettable characters, mysterious schemes and dastardly plots, Russ Tunney’s adaptation of this classic adventure story was a huge popular hit for Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre and again on a UK tour.
Evocative of Dickens and Edward Gorey, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase makes for thrilling theatre. It is funny and spectacular with lush music and innovative staging, a great show for schools and drama groups.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A gift for any company as family entertainment… Expertly blends melodrama, comedy, adventure and a little spookiness, interwoven with songs and dances… Wonderful stuff. –The Stage
About the Author
Joan Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer, especially of supernatural fiction and children’s alternate history novels. She won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children’s writers and she was a commended runner up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s best children’s book by a British subject. She won the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972). In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first in her best- selling Wolves Chronicles series and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012.
