Emma Carroll
A much-loved children’s author, Emma Carroll has been championed by Waterstones booksellers since her we nominated her debut book, Frost Hollow Hall, for the 2014 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Since then she has gone on to publish stories including In Darkling Wood, Frost Hollow Hall, Sky Chasers, Letters from the Lighthouse and Secrets of a Sun King (both of which were chosen as Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month). Her latest novel is 2019’s The Somerset Tsunami.
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The finest practitioner of historical fiction for children writing today, Emma Carroll delivers yet another enthralling adventure, this time set in 1960s England as the Cuban Missile Crisis and a runaway girl threaten to expose a shattering secret.
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- 09/06/2022
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Featuring places and characters known and loved by fans of Journey to the River Sea (including, among others, Maia, Finn, Miss Minton and Clovis) this spectacular new chapter in the story tells of the next generation and the growing threats to the Amazon rainforest that continue to this day.
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