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A child arrives in London without a parent, met by a woman who takes her home to her guesthouse in South London, a slightly gothic looking house with leaky guttering, whose back garden meets three others, to form a 'triangle' of unclaimed, overgrown space, full of litter and unruly hydrangeas. A guesthouse with a bad tempered man downstairs, and another man called Mr Trevellick who has just arrived, and who seems - slightly unlikely.
A man who has an owl. A man who doesn't understand the Underground. A man who belongs to another age. A magician from the past - surveying the London of today!
Travelling Magic follows its genre carefully - a novel in which the main challenge for its children is to 'manage' and shepherd the lonely, good-natured, bewildered wizard through this modern world of London. The magic 'triangle' of garden is one part of enchanted land that survives in our heavily developed modern world - one day, even that may be built over
Originally published 1965, Elisabeth Beresford was also the author of the hugely succeful Wombles series.
Illustrated by Judith Valpy,
Very good condition, light shelfwear only, no marks or inscriptions.
