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Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.

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A book to be read and re-read . . . Stirring to the emotions and the imagination. -- Christian Science Monitor <br> It is hard to write with restraint about Alan Garner's talent, so deftly does he build his story . . . of bright fantasy and somber Welsh legend, of romantic adventure and acid realism. -- Saturday Review <br>

@lt;DIV@gt; A book to be read and re-read . . . Stirring to the emotions and the imagination. --@lt;i@gt;Christian Science Monitor @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; It is hard to write with restraint about Alan Garner's talent, so deftly does he build his story . . . of bright fantasy and somber Welsh legend, of romantic adventure and acid realism. --@lt;i@gt;Saturday Review @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;

A book to be read and re-read . . . Stirring to the emotions and the imagination. -- Christian Science Monitor <br><br> It is hard to write with restraint about Alan Garner's talent, so deftly does he build his story . . . of bright fantasy and somber Welsh legend, of romantic adventure and acid realism. -- Saturday Review <br>

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ALAN GARNER is the award-winning author of Elidor, The Owl Service, The Moon of Gomrath, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and The Stone Book Quartet. He lives in Cheshire, England.

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