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The house in Norham Gardens

by Penelope Lively · 1974

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A fourteen-year-old girl uses a painted shield from New Guinea to contact various native owners of the shield during different periods of time, and when their presences threaten to materialize in the present, she offers to return the shield to them and lay the ghosts to rest.

Children's storiesFictionSpace and timeJuvenile fictionMystery and detective storiesStone age