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Once Upon a Fever (Paperback)
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Once Upon a Fever (Paperback)
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Loot Price R187
Discovery Miles 1 870
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Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters
Payton and Ani have grown up in the hospital of King Jude's. Payton
wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her
mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all
illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital
walls. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns
everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The
girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a
dark mystery unravelling ... The first teen novel from Angharad
Walker, author of critically-acclaimed The Ash House Angharad's
writing evokes the clever, unique world-building and philosophical
themes of Pullman's His Dark Materials while remaining startlingly
original The story follows two sisters in a London-inspired city
full of fantastical illness and sprawling, gothic hospitals where
dark secrets linger beneath the surface Praise for THE ASH HOUSE:
'An unexpected - and pleasing - combination of propitious and
disquieting.' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Walker's immersive story slowly
reveals its secrets, using tension as a lever to tip the reader
deep into the Ash House's mysteries.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'The book
has allegorical chill that settles slowly, like damp seeping in . .
. leaving readers with a feeling of ambiguous unease that may stir
for a long time in the back of their minds like the after-effects
of a nightmare.' THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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