The powerful, inspiring story of one girl's bravery and determination in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Demetria has never questioned her harsh and joyless life on High Island. The bullying, the guards and the siren's scream announcing yet another failed escape from the prisons of Low Island across the sea, are all she has ever known. But then Political Prisoner Ianto Morgan is billeted with Demetria's family - and introduces Demetria to a world she never knew existed. He tells her about birds and flight, about science and the sea - and how he travelled thousands of miles to help her distant planet. But most of all he tells her about a world where people live free. Is Ianto telling the truth or is he a dangerous liar? With nothing left to lose, Demetria knows she must find out . . .
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Jan Mark has written many novels for children, including ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 2000, and LONG LOST which was published as part of Macmillan's Shock Shop series. When not writing Jan spends much of her time in schools and colleges, talking about writing and running workshops with teachers and children. She lives in Oxford.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By "telapa"
Format:Hardcover
I was deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Jan Mark on the 15 January 2006. I had literally just finished reading 'Riding Tycho' and had odered 'Voyager' minutes before learning this tragic news. Her death is all the more poignant as 'Riding Tycho' is one of her best novels - vivid, solidly written and utterly compelling. I believe the two novels are part of a longer series, I wonder if it will remain incomplete. Jan Mark leaves us with thought-provoking, original and riveting books and she will be sorely missed by this reader.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Jan Mark never fails to write thought-provoking and often uncompromising stories which make reading one of her books a complete pleasure. In 'Riding Tycho' she shows us a strange, brutal and yet utter convincing world. The heroine, eleven year old Demetria finds herself beginning to question this thoroughly unpleasant place after befriending Ianto Morgan, a Political prisoner. Ianto Morgan begins to tell her of another world and another way of living. But are they lies or is he telling the truth? It is vividly revealed (shown, never told) and the ending leaves you gasping for more.
I'm already moving onto the sequal 'Voyager' and I sense it will just as good...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. J. Birch
Format:Paperback
Why must we put things in boxes - this is an adult novel, this is for children? Because if no-one over the age of 16 ever reads this then they are missing out.
A short novel, but beautifuly crafted to reveal step by step an agnozingly scarey world so differenet from our own, but so much the same. Some may say drop it into the box marked science fiction, but it is not.
Much of Jan Mark's writing deals with worlds and places which we and the central charater initially accept, but which gradually become darker and more strange as each layer is gadually removed. So here Demetria begins the tale as a child, like any other, on an island that seems initially a bit like something in the Western Isles. Strict, colourless, isolated. Things are the way they are and there is not need to question, or even notice, that anything is "wrong". Until someone from outside comes along.
The second half of the book then becomes almost a mental monologue as everything Demetria knoew, all her certainties, melt away and the final climax is the only possible option.
Another example of why modern "teenage fiction" is the most exciting area of current writing. Not to be missed by anyone of any age.
A short novel, but beautifuly crafted to reveal step by step an agnozingly scarey world so differenet from our own, but so much the same. Some may say drop it into the box marked science fiction, but it is not.
Much of Jan Mark's writing deals with worlds and places which we and the central charater initially accept, but which gradually become darker and more strange as each layer is gadually removed. So here Demetria begins the tale as a child, like any other, on an island that seems initially a bit like something in the Western Isles. Strict, colourless, isolated. Things are the way they are and there is not need to question, or even notice, that anything is "wrong". Until someone from outside comes along.
The second half of the book then becomes almost a mental monologue as everything Demetria knoew, all her certainties, melt away and the final climax is the only possible option.
Another example of why modern "teenage fiction" is the most exciting area of current writing. Not to be missed by anyone of any age.
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