Product Description
Described as 'A Fable for Children and Grown ups' this is a book Wall originally wrote for his own two daughters , and is here published in paperback edition by Fingal Books, ( an imprint of Raven Books) Dublin, 1988, having been first published ( in a series of parts) in the Journal Of Irish Literature, USA, 1982.
Edgewear to the covers, and moderate to heavy dustmarking to the covers, more so to the top edges.
Ann and Beatrice enter the worls of Men through their father's bookcase, and begin their journery across The Fields We Know to the Magic Wood, to Snake and Ladder Mountain and beyond far away to the Country of Frost and Snow. Their mission? To stop te assassination of Santa Claus...Along the way they meet a host of colourful characters - The Snave of Diamonds, the money grabbing Pig, the nasty schoolteacher Mr Baboon.- in a crazy world that mirrors our own, amirror sharpened by the eyes of innocence.
Mervyn Wall is best known for his two novels - The Unfortunate Fursey and The Return of Fursey, and Leaves for the burning ( recently re-issued by Swan River Press)