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''An extraordinary book ... a classic'' - Sunday Telegraph

Sylvia Waugh''s extraordinary novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children''s Fiction Award.

From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too.

But you''d be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary. The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it''s hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close - until perhaps, now.

When a letter arrives from Australia, the whole family is plunged into fear that, for the first time, their secret is about to be exposed . . .



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An extraordinary book - a classic * Sunday Telegraph *
A wise and witty book * Financial Times *
A remarkable achievement * TES *
Wonderfully eccentric * Publishers Weekly *

The Mennyms

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      Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
      Publication Date: 07/06/2018
      ISBN13: 9780241340387, 978-0241340387
      ISBN10: 0241340381
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''An extraordinary book ... a classic'' - Sunday Telegraph

      Sylvia Waugh''s extraordinary novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children''s Fiction Award.

      From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too.

      But you''d be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary. The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it''s hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close - until perhaps, now.

      When a letter arrives from Australia, the whole family is plunged into fear that, for the first time, their secret is about to be exposed . . .



      Trade Review
      An extraordinary book - a classic * Sunday Telegraph *
      A wise and witty book * Financial Times *
      A remarkable achievement * TES *
      Wonderfully eccentric * Publishers Weekly *

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