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Bloomsbury
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
368 pages
ISBN: 1620408716
EAN: 9781620408711
Kindle: B00UANAMFA
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Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. "Like a
dropped acorn," she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the
term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge's Silent Reading Hour. Through the
doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the urchin she encountered in
her favorite P. G. Wodehouse story, Jem leads the stammering Alice into a world
of culture, truancy, and bizarrerie-a world far beyond the dull lessons of school.
The girls cultivate a steadfast bond based on a wicked and encircling sense of
humor, an impish joy in indelicate literature, and Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Then, as abruptly as she came, Jem disappears.
The years and schools that follow, as well as the lovers, do not dim the image of
the wondrous Jem. The disheartened Alice is almost ready to settle into an
ordinary life when an accident and the intervention of a latter-day fallen angel
impel her to go on one more wild and extravagant journey. Like the opera it
echoes, the result is pure enchantment.
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