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Fire and Hemlock

Diana Wynne Jones (1970)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG
Pages420 (Chunky (400-600))
SettingSecondary World
CSM age12
Goodreads3.96/5 (11168)

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Synopsis

At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.

Tags

Fairy Tale RetellingUrban FantasyLiterary FantasyMythic Fiction