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It is deep autumn and William, Mary and Alice Constant have returned to Golden House for the half-term holidays. At once they are thrown into the most crucial and desperate adventure of all. Matthew Morden is on the point of discovering for himself the art of time travel and his evil influence is permeating the whole valley. Now the future of the valley depends on the children reaching the Magician in his own time. The time has come for a final confrontation; the last great battle is about show more to be fought show lessTags
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William Corlett is a novelist and writer for children's television and theater. He has twice won Britain's Writers' Guild Children's TV Writer of the Year Award. His first adult novel, Now and Then, won the prestigious Dillons First Fiction Award and was the sleeper hit of 1998. He lives in Herefordshire, England.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Bridge in the Clouds
- Original title
- The Bridge in the Clouds
- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Stephen Tyler; William Constant; Mary Constant; Alice Constant; Matthew Morden
- Important places
- Golden House; Gloucestershire, England, UK; Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK (royal forest); Welsh Marches, UK
- Dedication
- For MaryThe Magician’s House is for Mum and Dad who were here when I started the quartet but had both gone before it was finished
- First words
- Mary sensed there was something wrong as soon as they reached the house.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Now,' he seemed to say, 'where shall we begin?'
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids, Tween, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .C8162 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
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- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 3
