{"product_id":"9780571299973","title":"Cora Ravenwing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The school where I first met Cora Ravenwing was called Okington  School, and I was just beginning to have real ideas and opinions of my own when I first went there...\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eCora Ravenwing\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) Gina Wilson began her acclaimed career as a novelist for young adults. As she describes in a new preface to this reissue, the idea for the novel 'took a grip' on her such that she wrote without 'planning', inspired by the theme of a child's growing sense of intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sensitive, mystery-tinged portrayal of social tensions... Cora Ravenwing, village scapegoat, is the first child whom narrator Becky Stokes meets when her family moves outside London in the mid-1950s; and her reflections deftly pick up the undercurrents of gossip, hostility, and social pretension that power the story of their year's troubled friendship.' \u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114323099888,"sku":"9780571299973","price":14.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571299973_p0.jpg?v=1763718107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571299973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}