Jane Langton crée des histoires qui explorent les liens complexes entre les personnes et les lieux, situant souvent ses récits dans les paysages évocateurs du Massachusetts. Son écriture se caractérise par un aperçu vif de la psychologie humaine et un style narratif distinctif. Langton se déplace avec aisance entre les genres, des mystères captivants aux histoires poignantes pour enfants, tout en conservant toujours sa voix d'auteur unique. Sa capacité à créer des personnages vivants et des environnements immersifs solidifie sa réputation de figure littéraire importante.
As part-time detective Homer Kelly sets off on his search for answers to the death of a young priest, who left nothing behind but an inauspicious and cryptic note, he finds a crime far more sinister and troubling. Reprint.
It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came to her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly.Jane Langton spins a marvelous fantasy that wild delight all who dream that someday, somehow, we will magically find ourselves aloft and suddenly able to fly!
When Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, the shattering of its huge rose windows resounds throughout the campus; but when a corpulent and headless corpse is found amid the debris, and the big, beloved chorus leader, Hamilton Dow, cannot be located, more than the peace and quiet of an illustrious university is disturbed. Is the corpse that of the missing conductor?