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Fourteen wonderfully told tales of magic and fantasy to captivate children of all ages. Among them the story of Nerryn and her magical harp of fishbones, the werewolf boy who can outrun an express train, the extraordinary hatching of a griffin in an airing cupboard and many more besides. These are rich, haunting and often humorous stories from a unique imagination. Illustrated atomspherically inside in black and white, with evocative and stunning cover artwork.
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Joan Aiken was born in Sussex, where she lives now. Her father was the American poet, Conrad Aiken. She began writing at the age of five, and hasn't stopped since, intermitted by two marriages and two children. Since the early 1960s, over 90 of her books have been published for both adults and children. Previous titles include The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Cape (1962), Black Hearts in Battersea, Cape (1964), A Bundle of Nerves, Gollancz (1976), The Winter Sleepwalker, Cape (1994).
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The heroine is an orphan, brought up in a harsh, greedy village by an old woman. She learns how to make a harp of fishbones, and eventually runs away to discover her own history and the curse under which her ancestral city lies - a city that can only be freed by music made by an instrument nobody has ever heard before.
Rich with mystery,mmagic, melancholy and joy, these are matchless stories for any child of 7+
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