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The Secret of Pooks Wood

Helen Laycock

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'Helen Laycock’s gift for creating wonderful settings and compelling characters shines in this Christmas story about a woman who visits an ancestral home and seizes the chance to change one horrific day in her past.'
'The Secret of Pooks Wood is an engrossing story of overlapping occurrences, entwined destinies, and magical salvation, but above all, it resonates with the warmth of the holidays, of family love and those magical moments and characters that Ms. Laycock is so good drawing.'
'Really captivating story that moved intriguingly from the present to various times in the past with Great Hawkesden Manor and a snow globe linking the times.'

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Dec 17, 2012 Helen Laycock rated it it was amazing · (Review from the author)

Shelves: children-s-mystery, children-s-adventure, childrens, childhood, childhood-books, childhood-reads, children, children-books, childrens-fiction, childrens-lit

EDITORIAL REVIEW 5*
Twins Ollie and Lily are stranded at Great-Uncle Alfred's house along with their mother, Stella, at Great Hawkesden Manor during Christmas in The Secret of Pooks Wood by Helen Laycock. The twins find a snow globe outside the house and inside the globe is a miniature model of Great Hawkesden Manor, sitting in the middle of a glitter blizzard. Stella decides to revisit some of the older parts of the manor where she used to play with Squirt as a child. She goes to the second ...more

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