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It is summer and the long holidays at Golden House stretch before William, Mary and Alice Constant. Hot lazy days of swimming and picnics ...until a new and terrible shadow steals over the valley and the children are plunged into a desperate adventure to save it from greedy developers. Once more they are pulled into the Magician's world and his eternal battle between good and evil. But without the Magician's trust and with evil Morden's powers now stronger than ever, they have a huge task on show more their hands 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 Tunnel Behind the Waterfall
- Original title
- The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Stephen Tyler; William Constant; Alice Constant; Mary Constant; Matthew Morden
- Important places
- Golden House; Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK (royal forest); Gloucestershire, England, UK; Welsh Marches, UK
- Dedication
- For William
- First words
- William pushed forward with his hands and, spreading his arms, glided through the tingling, ice-cold water.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And that's how the idea was first born.
- 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 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
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- 121
- Popularity
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- (3.65)
- Languages
- English, German, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 3
