Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido

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 cowshed-crouching 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 desiccated 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.

Publisher:	Penguin
Year:	1991
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780140159530
Condition:	Good
Description:	Page edges foxing, spine a little curved.

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SKU: 1587556
Location: Fiction