Terence Hanbury White: Mistress Masham's Repose (1989, Ace Books)
English language
Published Oct. 19, 1989 by Ace Books.
Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians.
Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians.
Eine seltsame, aber stets amüsante Märchengeschichte zwischen C. S. Lewis und Enid Blyton, die vergnügt in allen Jugendbuchgenres wühlt und dabei einen ganz eigenen Rhythmus entwickelt. Der Ablauf ist wenig originell, vielleicht sogar etwas vorhersehbar, aber die erzählerischen Details stimmen immer wieder milde.
