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Castle Barebane Child care & upbringing and a deeply respected politicalAuthor: Aiken, Joan Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 24 July 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 464 pages 129 x 197 x 30 322g 'Joan Aiken writes superbly, with a force, a colour and strength of imagination that one encounters all too rarely today' The TelegraphStrong and independent Valhalla Montgomery, a heroine straight out of a Henry James novel, abandons her New York career as a journalist to