Marianne Dreams

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Ren: There’s quite a big time difference between when the book was published and when the film was made, so there’s some updates to bring it into the ‘80s. MUSTINESS REPORT: My copy is a 1981 paperback reprint with pages the colour of a ripening tangerine. To continue reading, please sign in or take out a subscription to the quarterly magazine for yourself or as a gift for a fellow booklover.

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To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. Adam: And in the book, of course, we hear their thoughts to some degree, or their basic sensory impressions, through the radio. Ren: Because she only draws the radio in it, and the radio goes wrong so she doesn’t draw anything else because she doesn’t think it will come out right if she puts it in that room.It has actually been given a 12 rating in the UK, showing how such drama would probably be considered too disturbing to be shown a teatime nowadays. Yes, I too saw this excellent series I was only about 11 at the time, but it stayed vividly in my memory - utterly disturbing and very scary.

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Moira Buffini has written a gripping adaptation of the original novel, only let down by occasional lines that seem too contemporary for the play's 1950s setting.

He also commented on how well the dream scenes were handled and said, "these seem to be legitimate fears that child might have. The unease that pervades the novel becomes more tangible when the children discover that the rocks are watching them. Ren: Well, I think it’s immediately creepy from the first time she goes int the dream to the house and it’s this flat-looking house on this absolutely deserted plain because she hasn’t drawn anything else, and the wind whipping through the grass, and it definitely has a pretty eerie atmosphere from the beginning. Ali: — she does draw, and she does use the same pencil, as far as you can tell, but it’s not really emphasised as being an important object.

Musty Books: “Marianne Dreams” by Catherine Storr (1958) Musty Books: “Marianne Dreams” by Catherine Storr (1958)

In fact they even drowned out some of the dialogue but this may be just down to this DVD not how it went out on air. Great children's authors from Dahl and Sendak through to Sally Gardner and Patrick Ness all understand this and similarly put childrens dealings with evil at the heart of their work.

Will Tuckett, best-known as a Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer, has come up with an atmospheric production in which humdrum reality is constantly contrasted with the disconcerting dreams in which Marianne meets a boy stricken with polio in a lonely house. The loud continuous tock of the grandfather clock on the stairs gets ominously slower as the story unfolds, and the eerie disembodied voices heard as the children have to walk past it sets a gloomy aura to the place. Does the dream – unsettling as it is – become a more valid state of existence than the dreamer’s waking life? Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual.