Hill of the Angels - Mayfield, Sue
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Hill of the Angels is set during the English Civil War. Twelve-year-old Abigail Booth is the daughter of sheep farmers and textile workers; Grace Fowler is the daughter of the parish priest. They become friends and climb together to the Hill of the Angels, a rocky outcrop where, according to local legend, light creates a pattern of angels on the cave wall. Abigail and Grace meet there and bring beautiful gifts for the angels. However everything changes as the English Civil War breaks out and the families of Abigail and Grace find themselves on opposing sides. Separated from each other by…mehr

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Hill of the Angels is set during the English Civil War. Twelve-year-old Abigail Booth is the daughter of sheep farmers and textile workers; Grace Fowler is the daughter of the parish priest. They become friends and climb together to the Hill of the Angels, a rocky outcrop where, according to local legend, light creates a pattern of angels on the cave wall. Abigail and Grace meet there and bring beautiful gifts for the angels. However everything changes as the English Civil War breaks out and the families of Abigail and Grace find themselves on opposing sides. Separated from each other by warring ideologies and religious sectarianism, will their friendship survive and will they ever meet again at the Hill of Angels?
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Autorenporträt
Sue Mayfield is a writer for children and adults. As well as Hill of the Angels, she is the author of Blue (Hodder) which won the 2002 North East Book Award and the 2005 Heartlands Award for Young Adult Fiction (under its American title, Drowning Anna), and Damage (Hodder, 2006), which won the 2011 Prix Polar de Jeunesse in France (as Un An Après). Based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Sue trained as a teacher and has been a regular visitor to schools since the early 1990s, reading from her work and leading writing workshops. She has taught as an Adult Education and WEA tutor and facilitated other people's writing in community venues including hospitals and museums. During 2015 she was the Writer-in-Residence at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.