This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by New York Review of Books .

Catherine Storr was born in London in 1913. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many became classics. Marianne Dreams was also made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990. She died in 2001.