Pauline Fisk

Bonnie, a girl torn between the harsh reality of her mother's weaknesses and her grandmother's strong will escapes her home one day by sneaking into her neighbor's hot air balloon. But instead of flying into the clouds and back down, she lands in another world, something like her own, but both...

THE YEAR OF THE BEAST The first was the year of darkness because Jack couldn't remember anything, not anything at all, and the second was the year of light because that was all he could remember. The third was the year of measles, lying in his cot up in the frosty bedroom under the eaves for...