The Owl Service
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when...
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Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152056186 (0152056181)
Publish date: March 1st 2006
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Mystery,
Mythology,
Folklore
The Owl Service centres on three young people (I'm guessing maybe fifteen years old?) living in an ancient house in Wales. Alison owns the house; Roger is her stepbrother, Gwyn is the housekeeper's son. One day, they find a stack of plates in the attic, a dinner service with an owl pattern on it. In...
I was given this as a present from an aunt many years ago, and now in my 50s it has been re rad so many times,I have had to re buy it,, Great story, creepy, with a little humour,,
an impressionistic tale of three teens reenacting a deadly eternal triangle in a welsh village. strange yearnings and mysterious motivations are anchored by enjoyably prosaic dialogue, the oddly off-kilter use of slang, and a sharp but subtle sense of warfare between the classes. a nicely clean and ...
Mysterious events in a house turn frightening in Alan Garner's reworking of the Welsh Blodeuwedd myth. Stars Siriol JenkinsBroadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 1:00pm Sunday 4th April 2010Duration:90 minutesAvailable until:4:02am Sunday 11THIS has to be the most exciting thing to come my way(for free) in a lon...
Garner wrote this in a spare Kitchen Sink Drama style, and it mostly deals with class conflict. Not at all what I was expecting from a Welsh myth. And the ending - I didn't see that coming. I'm not sure that I'd recommend this to any but a rather mature reader, since Garner has made this more a p...
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