by Jan Mark · Viking Kestrel · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670801893
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Dream House is a novel by Jan Mark that tells the story of Hannah, a young girl who becomes entangled in a web of complex relationships while helping her mother at a creative writing, music, and dance center located in an old manor house. The house, mentioned in the Domesday Book, becomes the setting for intrigues and discoveries for Hannah.
Jan Mark was a British writer best known for children's books. In all she wrote more than fifty novels and plays and many anthologised short stories. She won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, both for Thunder and Lightnings (1976) and for Handles (1983). She was also a "Highly Commended" runner-up for Nothing To Be Afraid Of (1980).
