London: Collins, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult novel which combines fantasy and time travel with realism. "When Simon was living in Africa he had been very ill and had had a vision of a big man stretching out his arms towards him. A native doctor had told him that the illness was caused by the man in the vision, an ancestral spirit who was trying to make contact with him. This spirit, said the African, was Simon's Big Mister, and one day he would come again and show him many things." After he returns to England, to a grimy industrial town, he and his cousin Anne find themselves sucked backwards in time to 1824 at the beginning of the industrial revolution. 191 pp.