Make-Believe

By Elizabeth Goudge and Elizabeth GOUDGE; Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges

Book Overview

In Make-Believe, we rejoin Andre and Rachel du Frocq and their five children, the delightful family from Elizabeth Goudge's first novel, Island Magic. Few authors have captured the spirit of childhood... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859974677
• ISBN13: 9780859974677
• Release Date: July 1980
• Publisher: Chivers P
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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This is a collection of short stories about the du Frocq family from Island Magic. The tone is much more light-hearted than the earlier book, there is none of the dark drama of Island Magic, the Grandfather for instance, although an autocrat is not a malignant figure as he is in island Magic. In this collection the boisterous and ingeneous du Frocq children involve a number of unwary characters in their madcap schemes, a famous actor finds himself taken prisoner and locked in the loft, a publisher is persuaded to buy a bookshop that will run at a massive loss, a doctor rash enough to set up a rival practice to Grandfather's is outwitted, the new island Seigneur is persuaded not to evict an aged miller from his mill. The stories are full of humour and charm, this is a lovely book.