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The hypnotist

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WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2017Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South.

He has certain skills, honed over his lifetime, that he mostly keeps hidden.

Skills in hypnotism and mind control . . . Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer, hired as a farm-hand, and as carer for the farmer's wife.

But Pip is black. The farmer and his wife are white. And this is 1960s America, where race defines you and overshadows everything. As racial tensions reach boiling point with a danger closer to home and more terrifying than either thought possible, Jack and Pip's lives become inextricably linked. And Jack's hypnotic skills are called on as never before . . .

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Corgi Childrens
0552573450 / 9780552573450
Paperback / softback
823.92
06/10/2016
United Kingdom
English
341 pages
20 cm
Quiz No: 233348, Points 12.00, Book Level 6.60,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More