AIKEN, Joan.

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Cold Shoulder Road. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page: "For David, best wishes from Joan Aiken". Inscribed copies of this title are scarce.This book continued the adventures of the Twite family, following Black Hearts in Battersea (1964), Dido and Pa (1986), and Is (1992). Aiken "made her name as an exceptional writer for children" with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, "a dramatic gothic adventure with a strong Dickensian feel" (ODNB).

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