Jonah's Mirror
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Cover story
On the front of BfK this month is the cover of Yesterday by Adèle Geras. The artwork is by Carolyn Piggford. This book is one from the 'Teenage Memoirs' series published by Walker (see the article, All Their Yesterdays, in this issue) and Adèle, of course, is the subject of our Authorgraph - see centre-spread. Our thanks to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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Jonah Sprockett, millionaire inventor, is bored. It's perhaps fortuitous that he invents a two-way mirror through which he vanishes! The world of Sudonia in which he finds himself is, as the name suggests, an illusion - an elaborate fantasy created by his imagination - which Miss Wingbone, his rational, intelligent fiancee, discovers when she's propelled into it. How to get back to reality - at any level - is the problem. Lillington's work is not for the word-shy: puns and slyly funny asides abound. This is intelligent prose, dense with ideas, but imbrued always with an irrepressible sense of fun and invention. Competent readers of 13 and upwards will revel in this - a must for the library and book box.