What's the name of the website where you can input vague memories of a book you once read, and it tells you what it was called?

[MrsMuddle]

Does anyone know?

Ohhh and they were about a boy (or a cat>?) called Tobias? Was is something like Magic and Moonlight?

colditz, i think perhaps the resort/couples one you're thinking of is Louise Dean's Becoming Strangers - maybe not the one in question? Don't think the couples in it had met before ..

I have one from my childhood that's been plaguing me for years - there's a girl who's sick and can't play in the snow in winter, but then her aunt(?) invites her to stay in the spring, and she goes out into the orchard, and there's so much blossom everywhere that it's like it's snowing ... Really beautiful illustrations, can't for the life of me remember any more about it ...

STRIPEYMAMA AAAHHH that's it!!!!
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Now I'll have to buy it. You've made an old fart very very happy

Charliegal, the story about the garden cut out from the back of a cereal packet, it's definitely Joan Aiken, I know the one, I loved it too. But I don't know which book it's in! A Necklace of Raindrops, a Harp of Fishbones? one of those maybe. Was it in the same book as the girl who lived in London and could enter a garden by listening to a record? -

The one with the boy and the cat and another character called Sebastian was from a series called Tim and the Hidden People by Sheila McCullagh. There were loads of titles such as Magic in the Yard and On the Night of the Full Moon.
I read these as a child and my DD's school still has them, she is reading them at the mo.

The Joan Aiken cereal box garden one is here

OH MY GOD- thank you so much to washersaurus, choosyfloosy and popsycal- you are amazing. I can't tell you what it means to me. I am going to order the book now, I really cannot believe that I will be reading that story again, after it haunting me for years and years.
Wow, I just love mumsnet

If anyone has books they can't find on MN I found Abe books very useful in tracking things down. Try [http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/abesleuthuk this]

Sorry, that should have been:
try this

ok - ledodgy - your mission, should you choose to accept it:

fantasy type adult novel. main character is a girl, and there are 2 countries at war, and she fights as some sort of telepathic soldier. then these diplomat type people turn up from another country, and one of the diplomat blokes seduces her but he's really a total bastard and is fucking with her head. anyway, she escapes him, and sorts everything out. there's something to do with walking towers. i read it when i was pg, i'm sure, and it was a library book, but i'm certain that if i go in there and rabbit that at them they're going to think i'm insane and ask me to leave!

thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I have a book memory if anyone can help.

Set in Austrlia in the outback many years ago. A boy is crippled with polio and gets about on horseback as he can't walk well.

UrbanDryad, do you not have internet access to your library account? It should have all the bboks you have borrowed on there, not sure how long for though.

StripeyKnickers, would it be this??

oooh how do i do that VS?

Erm, I think you go onto the northamptonshire libraries website (I assume it's that one?) and put in your library number, (the one on your card) it might ask for a pin, but if you haven't set it up I don't know, I think you just ring the library and get it.
If you mean actually find the books once you're in the site go to your account and it says something like 'view items I have borrowed'

there's only details of my current books on loan

Love this thread.

Recently read a book which I'm sure was called "Where they were loved" about an Irish family and centred on the mothere and her two daughters. I've tried to Google the title for the author's name but nothing! It's contemporary fiction, female author, was pretty good, wanted to reccommend to my mum. Can anyone help?

Victoriansqualour, thanks a million

strange but true!

one book has been bugging me for the ten years since i read it and gave it away. have googles descriptions and never come up trumps.

was about to post the vaguest description - largely consisting of my memory of front cover!

and THEN just as i was typing, the title came to me! after 10 year block!!!!!! abe'd then googled and its right!

Loose Change by sara davidson BTW

ahhhh... a little mumsnet miracle

This book has been haunting me for years.

It's an 'old' book - 50s maybe earlier

Girl goes to live with grandfather in large country house. Mystery erupts. Priest hole and tunnel through house - lots of treasure in the tunnel. Baddies obviously. Girl solves mystery.

It was written rather well from what I remember, not really written childishly.

Any ideas????

What a brilliant thread, with some really brilliant people on here finding things!!!

I have loads in my mind... will narrow one down and post tomorrow... hoe excellent! thank you all

ps am loving some of your descriptions and also, wanting to read some of them!

Ahem! I started this thread, asked about a book and no-one's come up with the title! (Lululemonrefuser, did you find it?)

Nor can I find it on either of the two sleuth sites that people have posted.

In the words of my 10 year old DS, how's that fair?

Now I think I've imagined the book all along.