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BLACK MARIA

(Aunt Maria in the USA)

Click here for larger picture Click here for larger picture Click here for larger picture Click here for larger pictureMig loves happy endings but can there be one in Cranbury-on-Sea?  Mig finds that her Aunt Maria, who seems so gentle and civilised, with her sweet little chats and daily tea parties, rules with a rod that is tougher than iron and deadlier than poison.

The men in the area are grey-suited zombies and the children behave like clones - but things go from bad to worse when Aunt Maria turns Mig's brother Chris into a wolf.  Mig is on her own - but then there is the ghost and the green box and Mig is catapulted into the oldest struggle our world has ever known...



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