The second delightful story featuring Edie and her friends the Flits - the little winged people only children can see. So she and her friends Charlie, Naz and flit Impey embark on a tense and exciting Parisian adventure to rescue the glasshouse flits before it's too late.
This book uses the body of letters and treatises addressed by major Christian thinkers to the women of the Anicia family, as well as comparative evidence from modern Hinduism and Islam, to explore how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women.
A modern classic for readers of THE BORROWERS - about eleven-year-old Edie Winter and her magical box of winged people that only children can see. When eleven-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious box on the London Underground she's amazed to discover that it's home to a family of Flits - tiny winged people.