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Devil-in-the-fog by Leon Garfield
bookshelves: published-1986, young-adult, winter-20102011, fantasy, play-dramatisation, ghosties-ghoulies, adventure, families, period-piece
Dramatised by Martin Jameson
Mr Treet ..... Tim McMullan
George ..... Joe Dempsie
Lady Dexter ..... Juliet Aubrey
Sir John ..... Sam Dale
Joseph ..... Sean Baker
Dr Newby ..... Iain Batchelor
Mrs Montague ..... Joanna Monro
Captain Richard ..... Ben Crowe
Hotspur ..... Raymond Karimi Taheri
Jane ..... Lauren Mote
Edward ..... Hugo Docking
Rose ..... Fern Deacon
Directed by Marc Beeby
blurb - 14 year-old George is the oldest of the seven Treet children. Captained by their larger-than-life father, the Treets are touring thespians, forever on the edge of poverty. But their normally happy lives are shadowed by the twice yearly arrival of "the Stranger" who hands Mr Treet a sum of money and disappears. This year, however, the Stranger appears for the last time and Mr Treet reveals to George that he is the son of a nobleman, Sir John Dexter. Now, George must, reluctantly, be returned to him. At the gloomy Dexter family home, George is welcomed by Sir John, who is recovering from a pistol wound received in the course of a duel with his black-hearted brother Richard. Richard has been imprisoned as a result. George does his best to settle into life in his forbidding new home. But trouble is waiting in the fog that surrounds the house. Richard Dexter has escaped from Newgate and is hiding in a nearby copse. What's more, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to kill George...
A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. But George's world turns upside down when he discovers that Mr Treet is not his real father, and that he must go and live with his real family. Where someone, somewhere out in the fog, is waiting for him... * Leon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie medal * This is a fast-moving, exciting read and is accompanied by atmospheric black and white line drawings by acclaimed artist Jason Cockcroft
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