![]() These characters have a familiar function that fits a standard trope: gentleness, order, routine. ![]() She saw the mouth on the other side of the window frame the words, ‘Come with me!’” First published in the UK 1973, and in the US as Mirror of Danger Adapted for ITV television in 1978 by Gail Renard and Colin Shindler, directed by Paul Harrison Emma Barkhle as Lucy and Bernadette Windsor as Alice in ITV’s adaptation (1978)īoth Come Back, Lucy and Tom’s Midnight Garden use houses to represent modernisation or obliteration of the past, and both feature a grandmotherly figure. The lights in the room swung, the lights in the reflection swung, wild half-formed ideas swung in Lucy’s head. Lucy, with a thrill of fear, shook her head. But even as she reasoned, the owner of the face raised a pale hand that beckoned. ![]() “She swished the curtain as she spoke in order to see better, and for the peering Lucy the light was suddenly changed so that instead of the dark garden she saw only a reflection of the room behind her and her own face. Victorian visions take a sinister turn in a study of childhood grief set in the progressive 1970s ![]()
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