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This breathtaking sequel to Connolly's bestselling The Book of Lost Things revels once more in folklore and myth, as a comatose girl finds herself drawn to a mysterious property on her hospital's grounds.
Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue.
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child.
Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard.
Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781399727822
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 41 g
Dimensions: 222 x 138 mm
This is the follow up to The Book of Lost Things which was written in 2006, which I was previously unaware of. However, this reads well as a stand-alone. If like me you know this author from his Charlie Parker... More
A cosy faery story for Autumn. I love this . It’s a beautiful new hardback and just in time for the cosy season
Ceres is suffering every parent’s worst nightmare. Her daughter Phoebe is in a coma, and she is lost without her.
So in hope of getting some response Ceres reads to Phoebe. Tales of folklore and fable.
She visits a...
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