Its plot is driven by mysterious connections – invisible threads that join together people and things in worlds both real and imaginary – and while the story may be resolved at the end of the book, the puzzle remains.Īlthough its author Catherine Storr (1913–2001) did write fiction for adults, it is for Marianne Dreams that she is best known, and for Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, written for younger children. Marianne Dreams, published in 1958, is that kind of novel. I love puzzles – not particularly the kind that have to be solved, like crosswords, but ones that intrigue in the same way as a complex painting or a spider’s web. A few years later, when she decided it was too young for her, she handed it on to me. When my sister was 10 she bought a rather battered copy of a book called Marianne Dreams at our school summer fair.
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