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Under Plum Lake
First edition
AuthorLionel Davidson
IllustratorMike Wilkes
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren’s novel
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1980
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages136 pp
ISBN0-394-51252-9
OCLC6330758
823/.914 Fic
LC ClassPR6054.A87 U5 1980

Under Plum Lake is a children's adventure novel by Lionel Davidson, first published in 1980.

Plot

A young boy, Barry, explores a cave on the Cornwall coast and discovers a highly advanced subterranean civilization called Egon. Located somewhere deep beneath Earth's oceans, Egon is unknown and inaccessible to humans unless an Egonian chooses to bring them there. On all such occasions, the human being's memories of Egon are erased and replaced with false memories before being returned to the surface.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews characterised it as "a little tale, somewhere between fantasy and science fiction, that's less-than-magical yet more than nicely told", written by an author "whose oddly conceived books are usually--like this one--less than fully satisfying."[1]

References

  1. ^ "Under Plum Lake". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 5 March 2015.