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  <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Joan Delano Aiken was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge.&lt;br&gt;She worked for the BBC and the UNIC, before she started writing professionally, mainly children's books and thrillers. For her books she received the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972).&lt;br&gt;Many of her most popular books, including the Wolves Chronicles, were set in an elaborate alternate history of Britain in which James II is never deposed in the Glorious Revolution, but supporters of the House of Hanover continually agitate against the monarchy. These books also toy with the geography of London, adding a Canal District among other features.&lt;br&gt;Her series of children's books about Arabel and Mortimer are illustrated by Quentin Blake. Others are illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.&lt;br&gt;Her many novels for adults include several that continue or complement novels by Jane Austen. These include Mansfield Revisited and Jane Fairfax.&lt;br&gt;Aiken was a lifelong fan of ghost stories. She set her adult supernatural novel &lt;i&gt;The Haunting Of Lamb House&lt;/i&gt; at Lamb House in Rye (now a National Trust property). This ghost story recounts in fictional form an alleged haunting experienced by two former residents of the house, Henry James and E. F. Benson, both of whom also wrote ghost stories. Aiken's father, Conrad Aiken, also authored a small number of notable ghost stories.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[M.R. James, Fitz James O'Brien and Nugent Barker]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Rye, East Sussex</hometown>  <born_at>09/04/1924</born_at>  <died_at>01/04/2004</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase]]></title>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Pat Marriott]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.09</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>907</ratings_count>
  <published>1962</published>  
  
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        <book id="36637">
  <title><![CDATA[Black Hearts in Battersea]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>278</ratings_count>
  <published>1964</published>  
  
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        <book id="36644">
  <title><![CDATA[Nightbirds on Nantucket]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.23</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>223</ratings_count>
  <published>1966</published>  
  
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        <book id="262744">
  <title><![CDATA[Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>255</ratings_count>
  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Midnight is a Place]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>141</ratings_count>
  <published>1974</published>  
  
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        <book id="36641">
  <title><![CDATA[The Cuckoo Tree]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.08</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>117</ratings_count>
  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dido and Pa]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>111</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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        <book id="36635">
  <title><![CDATA[The Stolen Lake]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>100</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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        <book id="262742">
  <title><![CDATA[The Whispering Mountain]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>80</ratings_count>
  <published>1969</published>  
  
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        <book id="267714">
  <title><![CDATA[Mansfield Revisited]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12075.Joan_Aiken]]></link>
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  <average_rating>3.13</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>91</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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