Barrington Stoke Great Expectations

Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens’ “most perfect” novel. My story is a long one with many strange events and dark turns.

But time is short. I will be brief. In this slim volume, I concentrate on five people. A dangerous criminal. An honest blacksmith. An abandoned bride. A girl who glittered like a distant star. And myself. Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, whose life was twisted and bent out of shape by all of them. Orphaned as a baby, Pip is raised by his sister to live the simple life of a blacksmith’s boy.

But a chance encounter in a graveyard and a visit to a ruined mansion set him on a different path.

When a secret benefactor pays for him to become a gentleman, Pip’s life takes a greatly unexpected turn…

Reading Age: 9+

Author

Tanya Landman is renowned for her thought-provoking, prize-winning novels including the beautifully “deft and dark”, Carnegie Medal-winning Buffalo Soldier. In 2019 she won the Scottish Teenage Book Prize for her critically acclaimed novella One Shot. Tanya says that she loves how writing allows her to daydream – something she was always in trouble for at school! She lives in Devon with her sons, a Siamese cat and two Labradors.

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