Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has
left his aunt and siblings to come to London where his widower
father wishes to introduce him to his young future step-mother.
Unable to return home when his brother and sister become ill, Ben
is left on his own to explore the maze of walled gardens which
surround his new home. Soon he meets Thomas, the son of an exiled
East African Prime Minister, and Lil, a fatherless cockney waif.
All three children, troubled and contending with the dislocation of
their new lives, become entwined in each others' journeys of
self-discovery and adventure. In Nina Bawden's much-praised second
novel for young readers, the lessons and pains of childhood are
evinced with characteristic deftness, combining sympathy, affection
and timeless wit.
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