Published: 2006
One doesn't expect to find a pony and trap abandoned with no trace of its owner, and when it is discovered that Meryon has fallen and stunned himself on the breakwater, and that he is unable to remember what happened, the mystery deepens.
Tamzin, Rissa, Roger and Meryon are camping out in the old Martello Tower with Tamzin's mother and Diccon, and night after night Meryon cries out with fear in his sleep.
Amongst the normal activities of keeping an eye on Jim the ferryman, helping with the Church Social and secretly invading the vicarage which was inhabited by a locum parson and his family, the four manage to discover the secret of Meryon's dreams .
Set immediately before No Entry, Hidden in a Dream is one of Monica Edwards' best Romney Marsh stories.
There will be a new foreword by Shelley Edwards, an introduction by Joy Wotton, with particular information on Martello Towers, and an illustrated publishing history by John Allsup.
Reviews
- I am much enjoying the Monica Edwards' Romney Marsh books. I'd been put off them before because I knew how expensive and difficult to obtain they were. The more I read of them, the more I enjoy returning to the development of Tamzin & Co. and the fascinating cast of village characters.
- Berwyn Peet
- As I re-read these books after the lapse of so many years, not only am I caught up afresh in all the characters' lives, but vividly impressed with Monica Edwards' talents in telling a story, creating living, breathing human beings, colouring in endless landscapes and pictures, and with every page bringing a new lesson to any reader, but particularly to a young growing readership. I imagine her father must have blessed his congregation, and this young daughter, with inspired sermons!
- Pauline Juckes
- I can't thank you enough for republishing these books. I have been a fan since I was nine and living in London. I yearned and yearned to live at Punchbowl Farm. I discovered the Tamzin stories later and I think they have the edge for me but I love them all still and I am now in my fifties. It is so good to know that there are loads more people out there who feel like I do. Many thanks.
- Lesley Collyer