The Children's Book Dilys Award Nominee (1998) Mastering Regular Expressions is the

Mastering Regular Expressions is the definitive guide to the subject

Buried deep and bloody

for life itself

the exchange and balancing of male and female energies

poverty and ignorance

The Children's Book Dilys Award Nominee (1998) Mastering Regular Expressions is theOlive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each, she writes a private book, bound in its own colour and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a storybook world but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and friends, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets. Born at the end of the Victorian era and growing up in the golden