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Kirkus Reviews called the novel a "slow-moving, richly textured suspenser" and wrote that it "shows Vine at her most weblike". [2] The Virginia Quarterly Review stated: "Reminiscent of Mary Gordon's memoir about her search for the reality of her writer father, this is a superb work of fiction."
The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", [3] as he is told by a caddisfly – an insect that sheds its skin – and begins his moral education.
Creative works about chimney sweeps, people who clean ash and soot from chimneys. Pages in category "Works about chimney sweeps" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The book was published in two volumes between 1940 and 1941, and tells the story of Giorgio, a boy from Sonogno in the Verzasca Valley in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Tetzner had read of a ferry disaster drowning some thirty chimney sweep boys (Italian Spazzacamini ) who were sold to the City of Milan in the middle of the 19th century.
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This novel was much admired by her future mother-in-law, Mrs Marguerite Mallowan, who penned a note in a leather-bound copy she commissioned of this book together with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Hollow. The note read "Passing a bookshop while I was in Paris in 1932, I bought The Secret of Chimneys, now almost unobtainable. I had just ...
Rendell was born as Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, Essex (now Greater London). [3] Her parents were teachers. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden to Danish parents and brought up in Denmark; her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English.