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Author: Cresswell, Helen General fiction (Children's / Teenage)Published on 2 July 2015 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Children's Classics' series.Pap erback | 304 pages138 x 180 x 23 | 254g A new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts.On night-time jaunts from the house where she's staying while her mother recovers from an accident, Minty stumbles upon a moondial which takes her back in time. She finds Tom, a sickly kitchen boy, and Sarah, a girl with a birthmark who is only allowed out at night because her family think she has the mark of the devil . . .Can Minty save her friends, or will she get stuck in the past . . .?'Fresh and entertaining.' Publishers Weekly'Carefully wrought and evanescent as a ghost story should be, this will be enjoyed by any admirer of Tom's Midnight Garden.' Kirkus Show more