'The school where I first met Cora Ravenwing was called Okington School, and I was just beginning to have real ideas and opinions of my own when I first went there...'
With Cora Ravenwing (1980) Gina Wilson began her acclaimed career as a novelist for young adults. As she describes in a new preface to this reissue, the idea for the novel 'took a grip' on her such that she wrote without 'planning', inspired by the theme of a child's growing sense of intuition.
'A sensitive, mystery-tinged portrayal of social tensions... Cora Ravenwing, village scapegoat, is the first child whom narrator Becky Stokes meets when her family moves outside London in the mid-1950s; and her reflections deftly pick up the undercurrents of gossip, hostility, and social pretension that power the story of their year's troubled friendship.' Kirkus Review
- ISBN10 0571141889
- ISBN13 9780571141883
- Publish Date September 1989 (first published 18 February 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 173
- Language English