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Start using Mumsnet PremiumAny idea what this book might be?
(12 Posts)I have very little to go on.
There a character called Trevelyan, but likely not the main character.
It is almost certainly a 20th century book, rather than 19th.
It was read by my mate in the mid 60s; he was about 10 but had a very high reading age, so it may have been aimed at early secondary school kids, rather than older primary.
Does it ring a bell for anyone?
Do you have any idea at all about the plot?
Children? Adults? (Animals.......?)
No, no idea at all! It’s impossible, isn’t it?
What is it about the book that makes you want to track it down? Or is it just one of those niggles?
Just one of those niggles, Empress. I can’t tell you anything else either, as my friend read it, I don’t think I did. Except I have a very, very faint recollection of a baddie called Trevelyan, but I could have conjured that from just talking to my friend.
I don’t know if Mr T was actually a baddie, btw. My friend is male so it might have been a ‘boy’ book.
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Perhaps it was Treveryan by Angela du Maurer, rather than Trevelyan.
Hesterton*, it may well have been The Sitterford Mystery. I shall find out tomorrow.
Thanks, to all of you. I shall let you know.
Was it Sparrows in the Scullery? By Barbara Brooks Wallace. Boy called Trevelyan gets orphaned and sent to live in a Boggins home for Boys. Aimed at 8-12 year olds.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or one of its follow ups had a girl called Trevellian, I think she was with the bloke with two heads Zophod.
I know the one, Ada, she was called Trillian. Those books came out when we were in our teens - I remember listening to it on the radio on Sunday mornings!
The book I’m after would have been published long before Hitchhiker, though. Possibly as far back as the 30s.
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