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<p><P>Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two sinister figures come looking for it, she knows instinctively that she must guard it with her life.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In her first book for young adults, Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit) delivers a romp through space and time with an intrepid 11-year-old heroine, Silver Rivers. The story opens with the first of the Time Tornadoes, which merges a contemporary school bus and a pharaoh's chariots on the River Thames. It then moves to the 16th-century rambling house that had been Silver's family home before her parents and sister disappeared four years ago. Now Silver lives there with her greedy aunt who is helping an ageless and si

Who reads Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)?

Author

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780747583554

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Travel, Fiction

Rating

3.46 / 5 (1,544 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14