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An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy.
Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices.
Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone and her scary sisters soon find out and send him to Bloor's Academy. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him.
When Charlie discovers that the child in the photograph is being held, hypnotised, against her will, he and his new friends with 'gifts' try to awaken her. But can they overcome Manfred's sinister hypnotic gifts?
An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy.
Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices.
Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone and her scary sisters soon find out and send him to Bloor's Academy. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him.
When Charlie discovers that the child in the photograph is being held, hypnotised, against her will, he and his new friends with 'gifts' try to awaken her. But can they overcome Manfred's sinister hypnotic gifts?
The first instalment of the international bestselling series from Jenny Nimmo starring Charlie Bone.
Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England and educated at
boarding schools in Kent and Surrey from the age of six until the
age of sixteen, when she ran away from school to become a drama
student/assistant stage manager with Theater South East. She
graduated and acted in repertory theater in various towns and
cities: Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hastings, and
Bexhill.
She left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Almafi,
Italy. On her return, she joined the BBC, first as a picture
researcher, then as an assistant floor manager, studio manager
(news) then finally a director/adaptor with Jackanory (a BBC
storytelling program for children). She left BBC to marry a Welsh
artist David Wynn Millward and went to live in Wales in her
husband's family home. They live in a very old converted watermill,
and the river is constantly threatening to break in, as it has done
several times in the past, most dramatically on her youngest
child's first birthday. During the summer they run a residential
school of art, and she has to move her office, put down tools
(type-writer and pencil, and don an apron and cook! They have three
grown-up children, Myfawny, Ianto, and Gwenwyfar. Simon Russell
Beale is a British actor, author and music historian. He has
appeared in Persuasion (1995), The Young Visiters (2003), The Deep
Blue Sea (2011) and as Falstaff in the BBC television films Henry
IV Part I and Part II (2012) for which he won the 2013 Television
BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. He was also part of the main cast
of Showtime's Penny Dreadful and has been described by The
Independent as ‘the greatest stage actor of his generation’.
Simon’s numerous radio and audiobook recordings include War &
Peace, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, and Hamlet, The Tempest and
Measure for Measure for the Shakespeare CD Series.
'A fast moving, dialogue-driven romp with plenty of cliff-hangers
for those first hooked into reading by Harry Potter.'
*The Bookseller*
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