Cold Shoulder Road
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The cover illustration for this issue is by Tony Ross for Allan Ahlberg’s latest addition to the ‘Happy Family’ series, Miss Dirt the Dustman’s Daughter. We are grateful to Puffin Books for their help in producing the cover of this November issue.
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This novel has one of the most compelling opening chapters I've ever read, then it carries on to a spellbinding story that I had trouble putting down. We have come to expect the best from Joan Aiken but Cold Shoulder Road, part of her James III sequence that begins with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts in Battersea, is superb. Arun returns to his mother's house only to find it deserted and no one will tell him where she has gone. With the help of his indomitable cousin, Is Twite, Arun sets off to discover the truth, whatever that might be. Aiken makes us believe with ease that we are there experiencing the risks and the mysteries, enduring the hardships and the confusions. I loved every word picture and every twist in the tale right to the rather shocking ending.
