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The Shades

Betty Brock

1971128 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Harper & Row · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780060206444
  • 1973Gollancz · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780575015654
  • 1983Avon Books (Mm) · ENGISBN 9780380015450

After Hollis washes his eyes in the dolphin fountain, he is able to see a special world whose inhabitants are the shadows of those people that have entered the garden of the house he is visiting.

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