When Marnie Was There, Joan G. Robinson
When Marnie Was There, Joan G. Robinson
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When Marnie Was There

Author: Joan G. Robinson

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/16/2014

Synopsis

When Marnie Was There is a gripping ghost story telling of Anna's strange encounter and friendship with a shadowy girl called Marnie among the wild and watery sand dunes of the Norfolk countryside. Is Marnie real? Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal when first published in 1967, this is a classic tale with truths to tell about friendship, loneliness and family.

One of Hayao Miyazaki's top 50 favorite books for children, When Marnie Was There, is coming to the big screen with an animated adaptation by his film company, Studio Ghibli, creators of Oscar-winning Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle and Arietty, based on Carnegie-winning novel, The Borrowers. This classic ghost story comes back into print to celebrate the film's release, bringing Anna's encounters with Marnie to a new generation of readers.

About The Author

Joan G. Robinson (1910-88) trained as an illustrator and in 1939 began writing and illustrating her highly acclaimed and very successful children's books. Among her works currently available are the Teddy Robinson stories published by Macmillan and the Mary-Mary series published by Hot Key Books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☾❀Miriam✩ on May 15, 2020

This book was absolutely lovely. I picked it up mainly because of Studio Ghibli's movie - which I still haven't watched, but I wanted to read the book first - and I loved it. It's sweet, wholesome, and has a very similar atmosphere to the classics I used to read when i was a child (like Anne of Gre......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on January 28, 2018

Anna is unhappy. Finding life hard at school and feeling unloved by her foster parents, Anna goes to stay with Mr and Mrs Pegg who live in a Norfolk village by the sea. Anna enjoys her freedom roaming the sand dunes and salt marsh and thinks she longs for solitude until she makes friends with anothe......more

Goodreads review by Stefan on March 03, 2015

Apparently this is going to be a Studio Ghibli movie, and when the bookseller lady in Tokyo told me I was of course like "Must own this nowwwwww" so I bought it and read it and loved it. It's a very quiet, bittersweet book, taking place in England in the early 60's. It has sort of that C.S. Lewis-y......more

Goodreads review by Berfin on November 25, 2021

If you are missing someone, someone you loved and lost, then this book is gonna make you cry a lot. First I watched the ghibli movie adaptation, then I read the book. Maybe that's why this story is so special for me 'cause Omoide no Mâni is one of my favourite movies. The way she smiled, the way she......more

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