Fire and Hemlock (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Diana Wynne Jones
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—magical world
- Time of Work: The 1980s
- Setting: Middleton and Bristol, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Memory, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Other worlds, 1980’s, England or English people, Fairies
- Locales: England
The Plot
In the middle of packing to return to college, Polly suddenly becomes aware that she seems to have forgotten several years of her life, or rather that she seems to have two parallel sets of memories, one featuring a man called Thomas Lynn. In trying to figure out this puzzle, she is obliged to work back through her adolescence, recalling events.
Readers see Polly at the age of twelve. She has been sent to her grandmother’s home because her parents are quarrelling. There, with her friend Nina, she undertakes a madcap set of adventures that lead her to the...
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