A01=Moira Buffini
Adventure
Author_Moira Buffini
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Dreams
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Ghosts
Product details
- ISBN 9780571241330
- Weight: 111g
- Dimensions: 127 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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On her tenth birthday, Marianne is forced to bed with a fever. Picking up a pencil she starts to draw a house. That night she dreams.
As Marianne sleeps, she finds herself transported to the house she has drawn, and the mysterious world that lies beyond. Together with a strange but familiar boy, she embarks on an adventure that runs between reality and dream.
Catherine Storr's classic children's novel is adapted for the stage by Moira Buffini. Marianne Dreams premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in December 2007.
Moira Buffini is is an English author, dramatist, director, and actor. Her works include the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-nominated The Dig, Jane Eyre; Byzantium, Dinner, and the Olivier Award Winner Handbagged. Buffini was co-creator and showrunner of the TV series Harlots, and a founding member of the Monsterists, a group of playwrights who promote new writing of large scale work in the British theatre. Songlight was Buffini's debut novel and was Winner of the YA Book Prize. It has sold in 17 countries, and The Torch Trilogy is now in development as both a TV series and theatre production. Buffini was born in England, to Irish parents, and schooled in Wales. In 2014 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Buffini currently lives in London. Catherine Storr was born in London in 1913. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many became classics. Marianne Dreams was also made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990. She died in 2001.
