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Original Title:	Fire and Hemlock
ISBN:	0060298855 (ISBN13: 9780060298852)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Thomas Lynn, Polly Whittacker
Setting:	Middleton, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1986)

Fire and Hemlock

Diana Wynne Jones

Hardcover | Pages: 420 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 9075 Users | 762 Reviews

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Title	:	Fire and Hemlock
Author	:	Diana Wynne Jones
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 420 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2002 by Greenwillow Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Romance. Fairy Tales

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Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed.

But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love — and perhaps Polly herself — will be lost.

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Ratings: 3.97 From 9075 Users | 762 Reviews

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(Pre-1985-) Dianna Wynne Jones is my absolute favorite writer of all time. Since I've gotten this far with cataloguing much of my reading history, I had to make sure this fact is recorded here somewhere. I actually haven't read this one -- my favorite -- in years, mostly because I'm terrified I'll discover it can no longer do for me anything like what it did when I was a kid.I really wish I could read anything now that would give me the kind of experience I had as a child reading Ms. Jones's

At the age of seven, Polly accidentally wanders into a funeral and meets Thomas Lynn, a professional cellist who become intertwined in her life and emotions, both as the father figure that Polly, the child of a broken home, needs - and later - it seems - as the recipient of a teenage crush.But, as a college student, Polly suddenly comes to the realization that she hasn't thought of Thomas in ages, although he was terribly important to her. And no one she talks to seems to remember him at all.

Polly is a capable young woman who has lived a completely ordinary life. Or so she thinks, until one day she's cleaning out her old bedroom and starts to remember - in great detail; it takes up most of the book - a different life, a second set of memories revolving around a somewhat older man, Thomas Lynn, who had been her friend while she was a child, and with whom she shared some very strange, otherworldly experiences. Polly realized (view spoiler)[that she was in love with Thomas when she was

Explores in a very meta way the mythical trope of hero figures through the interactions of a young girl Polly and a man called Thomas Lynn whom she befriends at a funeral being held at the mysterious neighbouring manor house one Halloween. References to Tam Lin, Thomas the Rhymer and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets abound and a familiarity with these should enlighten an understanding of the plot, particularly the ending which is famed for its confusing and oblique denouement, but is not essential to

Im impressed that Diana Wynne Jones was able to market this as a young adult novel. Evidently she was enoying a great deal of artistic freedom at this stage of her career. The plot of Fire and Hemlock is considerably more layered and complex than that of your average literary novel, and Jones rarely spells anything out for you. The result is a book that risks incomprehensibility at times and pretty much requires multiple readings to fully grasp. I confess I was often bewildered throughout the

I wish I could give this book infinite stars.

I know these five dates aren't all the times I've read this. But I definitely read it every year for the first few years after I discovered it, and I definitely read it in college (when I discovered the bookstore would order any book in print for me, so I ordered pretty much all the DWJ books I could find in their paper volumes of Books in Print. No wonder I was chronically broke) and again post grad school, at minimum. I love this book. It's engraved in my head and heart. It launched a love