On the weekend of October 17 1981, a party of girls who had set out on a sponsored walk from Beaminster became separated from their leader and disappeared into the worst fog ever recorded on the west coast of Dorset. For days search parties of anxious parents and police failed to trace the girls. Those that returned, finally, could give no coherent account of their strange exile from home.
'Lord of the Flies was a book of this kind.' Observer
'A compulsively readable work of the imagination.' Elaine Feinstein, Times
'A delicate interweaving of Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks, and 'Good Queen Bess'... its somber moods and haunting melodies give it a power beyond the range of mere intellect.' Literary Review
- ISBN10 0224020617
- ISBN13 9780224020619
- Publish Date 1 January 1900
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 October 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English