8.2 /10 1 Votes
Illustrator Mike Wilkes Publication date 1980 ISBN 0-394-51252-9 Publisher Jonathan Cape OCLC 6330758 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 136 pp Originally published 1980 Genre Children's literature Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Similar Smith's Gazelle, A Long Way to Shiloh, The Night of Wenceslas, The Chelsea Murders, Making Good Again | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Under Plum Lake is a children's adventure novel by Lionel Davidson, first published in 1980.
Contents
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."