FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BEARMOUTH, COMES THIS HAUNTINGLY MAGICAL NEW NOVEL, HAILED BY READERS AS A MODERN CLASSIC______ 'Hauntingly beautiful' Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear 'The Twelve reads like a modern classic, with echoes of Alan Garner, Marcus Sedgwick, and C.S. Lewis.' Essie Fox 'Dark, dreamy, surreal and beautiful.' Katya Balen, author of October, October______It's supposed to be a treat for Kit, a winter holiday by the coast with her sister Libby and their mum. But when Libby vanishes into thin air, and no one else remembers her, Kit is faced with a new reality - one in which her sister never existed. Then she meets Story, a local boy who remembers Libby perfectly. Together they embark on a journey beyond their wildest imagination into a world steeped in ancient folklore. Can Kit and Story uncover the secret of the Twelve and rescue Libby before Time runs out?
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Channelling the dark menace of classic British fantasy writers such as Susan Cooper and Alan Garner, this is a beguiling tale of ancient magic, good and evil, deeply rooted in the Welsh landscape. Haunting illustrations by Tom de Freston add to the eerie atmosphere.
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ISBN
9781782693987
Publisert
2024-10-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Pushkin Children's Books
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
Y, 03
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
256

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Biographical note

Liz Hyder has been making up stories ever since she can remember. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, in early 2018, won the Bridge Award/MoniackMhor's Emerging Writer Award.?Her first novel,?Bearmouth, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the Branford Boase Award, and was TheTimes's?Children's Book of The Year. Tom De Freston is an artist based in Oxford with his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. His practice is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds, combining paintings, film and performance into immersive visceral narratives.