Description
| Product ID: | 9781509868148 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Gullstruck Island |
| Authors: | Author: Frances Hardinge |
| Page Count: | 528 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A beautiful world-building novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge. <p><b>Chosen as one of <i>Time Magazine's </i>100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time, <i>Gullstruck Island </i>is a vibrant and exciting novel, in a beautifully imagined setting, by Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award winning author <i>The Lie Tree.</i></b><br><br>On Gullstruck Island the volcanoes quarrel, beetles sing danger and occasionally a Lost is born . . .<br><br>In the village of the Hollow Beasts live two sisters. Arilou is a Lost - a child with the power to depart her body and mind-fly with the winds – and Hathin is her helper. Together they hide a dangerous secret, until sinister events threaten to uncover it. With a blue-skinned hunter on their trail and a dreadlocked warrior beside them, they must escape, or risk everything. Can the fate of two children decide the future of Gullstruck Island?<br><br><b>'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of <i>A Monster Calls</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-08 |
