Title: Heartsease

Title: Heartsease Title Record # 12899
Author: Peter Dickinson
Date: 1969-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Changes
Series Number: 2
Language: English

Note: Concerning the 1st Puffin edition in 1972, perhaps in a new printing or state: A brief review of book 3 in "Briefings" edited by Helen Dawson, The Observer 1972-08-27 p. 22, closes "Don't miss the other two [...] (Puffin 20p each)."

Synopsis:

'At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead.' --summary, WorldCat library record OCLC 973655029
"The story--a kind of reverse science-fiction--tells how two children rescue a near-dead witch (an American observer with a two-way radio) ..." --brief review by Naomi Lewis, The Observer 1969-08-03 p. 25

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Heartsease	1969-00-00	Peter Dickinson	Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown			x+ 223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Heartsease	1969-04-17	Peter Dickinson	Gollancz	0-575-00223-9	18/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	189	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Heartsease	1971-00-00	Peter Dickinson	Puffin / Penguin Books (UK)	0-14-030498-3	£0.25^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Robert Hales
The Changes: A Trilogy	1975-00-00	Peter Dickinson	Gollancz	0-575-01907-7		510	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Changes Trilogy	1985-00-00	Peter Dickinson	Puffin / Penguin Books (UK)	0-14-031846-1	£2.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	348	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Alun Hood
Heartsease	1986-06-00	Peter Dickinson	Delacorte Press	0-385-29451-4	$14.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	235	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Heartsease	1988-05-00	Peter Dickinson	Dell Laurel-Leaf	0-440-20096-2	$2.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	235	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
The Changes: A Trilogy	1991-12-00	Peter Dickinson	Dell	0-440-50413-9	$12.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	427	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	David B. Mattingly
The Changes Trilogy	2015-01-27	Peter Dickinson	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-0138-0	$9.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
The Changes Trilogy	2015-05-26	Peter Dickinson	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-1476-2	$17.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	434	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni

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Reviews

Review by Orson Scott Card (1989) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1989
Review by Jim O'Brien (2020) in Pulp Apocalypse