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Julian Gloag (2 July 1930 – 12 September 2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter. He was the author of eleven novels, the best known of which is his first, Our Mother’s House (1963), which was made into a film of the same name starring Dirk Bogarde.
Julian Gloag. 3.69. 231 ratings46 reviews. "Mother died at five fifty-eight." So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden and build a tabernacle over her grave.
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Julian Gloag is the author of Our Mother's House (3.69 avg rating, 231 ratings, 46 reviews, published 1963), Sleeping Dogs Lie (3.40 avg rating, 15 ratin...
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Aug 29, 2013 · Our Mother's House. Paperback – August 29, 2013. So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden, telling people only that she's too sick to have visitors.
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Julian Gloag was born in 1930 in London, Greater London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Our Mother's House (1967), The Play on One (1988) and Only Yesterday (1986). He died on 12 September 2023 in France.
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Description. "Mother died at 8:58" So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of an orphanage, decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden, telling people only that she's too sick to have visitors. Then a menacing stranger appears, claiming to be their father.
The screenplay was written by Jeremy Brooks and Haya Harareet, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Julian Gloag. [2] Plot. The seven Hook children, whose ages range from five to fourteen, live in a dilapidated Victorian house in suburban London.
