Rachel and the Angel and Other Stories

by Robert Westall

A collection of seven short stories of fantasy set in England.

Genres: Short Stories

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929.

His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat and the Guardian Award in 1990 for The Kingdom by the Sea. Robert Westall's books have been published in 21 different countries and in 18 different languages, including Braille.

From: http://www.robertwestall.com/

Reviews

[Eric]

Less ghostly and more fantasy/sci-fi-oriented, this is another top-notch collection of Westall's work. As always, I'm flabbergasted that this gets lumped into the "teen/young readers" category. Some truly striking imagery throughout. What a legend.

[Kate Pendlenton]

I read this as a child, and again as an adult, to my 11yo son. Some of the stories in here are slightly too 'weird' for my liking, but some have stuck with me for life (like the child who gains understanding of everything he touches - terrifying but so powerful). A great author.