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A Candle in Her Room
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Perhaps Arthur's best known book and certainly the most unsettling. It begins:
"I suppose if we had not come to live in Pembrokeshire, Judith, Briony and I, this story would never have been written, for in another set of circumstances our lives might have run very differently. There would have been no Dido."
The story is about three generations of women who are haunted by an evil doll, and how it changes their lives.
"I suppose if we had not come to live in Pembrokeshire, Judith, Briony and I, this story would never have been written, for in another set of circumstances our lives might have run very differently. There would have been no Dido."
The story is about three generations of women who are haunted by an evil doll, and how it changes their lives.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
January 1, 1972
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Finished Reading
February 2, 2008
– Shelved
February 2, 2008
– Shelved as:
childrensbooks
December 4, 2008
– Shelved as:
dolls
December 4, 2008
– Shelved as:
multigenerational-saga
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Feb 04, 2008 11:48AM
I am sure this is not the only evil doll book (I seem to remember another one named Bella, plus weren't there some mean dolls in Hitty?) but it is unnerving, which is why this is not my favorite Ruth Arthur.
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Heavens! I have this in my inventory and I was considering digging it out and reading it until I found out it's about an evil doll. I also hate sentient toys. I think I may give it a pass.
Well, maybe you could sell it to Abigail, who loves Ruth Arthur as much as I do. But I think you should read it!
Yes, I don't recall ever coming across those (although as a former Brownie - the other kind - I read every book with Brownies in the title, mostly Mildred Wirt).
