It's June, four months on from the events in A Crack in the Line. Naia and Alaric's lives have changed immeasurably. Alaric has grown in confidence and ability, while Naia, without her beloved mother, struggles with melancholy. When Withern Rise is flooded Alaric and Naia, paddling about in their separate gardens in the family rowing boat, find themselves adrift in the same garden during the flooding of 1945, where they meet eleven year old Aldous Underwood, their great uncle, and things take a tragic turn.
Michael Lawrence has been writing children's books since 1995, and is best-known for his Jiggy McCue novels. He lived for many years in Cambridgeshire, not far from the house in which he was born, the house that is Withern Rise in the Aldous Lexicon Trilogy.
Title: Small Eternities: 2 (The Aldous Lexicon)
Author: Lawrence, Michael
ISBN: 9781843628705
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Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Publication Date: 2006-10-05
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.2586 kg
...a spine-tingling thriller about parallel worlds ... These are brilliant, thought-provoking novels for 12+ about grief, responsibility and choice. * The Times *
An appreciation of all the novel's subtleties demands a close reading, but one repaid by a narrative that is always engrossing. * TES *