![]() ![]() ![]() An interest in history ,the passage of time and local change is a running theme in the work of Penelope Lively, and this can be seen in many of her other books. The story has some other themes about the life of an ex-inhabitant of the cottage in the 19th century and the history of surrounding countryside. This is a failure but eventually of his own volition Thomas Kempe allows himself to be trapped again ,finding himself to be a stranger in this new world. He peforms the bell,book and candle ritual in order to trap the former apothecary's ghost back into a new bottle. ![]() No one however believes him until he meets Bert.Bert is a local handyman who has a sideline in exorcism. However James discovers that he is being haunted by the ghost of a seventeenth century sorcerer. ![]() They are beset by a series of small domestic disasters and the family assume that James is causing them. The story concerns a young boy James Harrison and his family who move to a cottage in a small Oxfordshire village called Ledsham. The novel won the Carnegie Medal in 1973. "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" is a novel for children by Penelope Lively published in 1973. Isbn = ISBN 0434948942 (first edition, hardback) Media_type = Print ( Hardback & Paperback) ![]()
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