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  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781782954323
  • Imprint: Red Fox Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

The Mennyms




Sylvia Waugh's extraordinary debut novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too. But you'd be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary. The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it's hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close - until perhaps, now. When a letter arrives from Australia, the whole family is plunged into fear that now, for the first time, their secret is about to be exposed . . .

Sylvia Waugh's extraordinary debut novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781782954323
  • Imprint: Red Fox Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Sylvia Waugh

Sylvia Waugh lives in Gateshead. She taught English at a local school for many years but has now given up teaching to devote her time to writing. She has three grown up children and two grandsons.

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Praise for The Mennyms

A brilliant first novel

Independent

Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award

(1994)