From the bestselling, award-winning David Almond comes a book of
hope and joy: under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable
Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For readers of
Michael Morpurgo and Katherine Rundell, from the author of the
beloved Skellig. She felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What
was that music? Sylvia has never been so far away. Her mother has
brought her to this village, this place of silence and dark,
endless forest, and she yearns for the city, the bright lights, her
friends, even a phone signal. Late one night she hears the music, a
weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel, a troubled,
beautiful boy. Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes, a hollow bone.
Play it well enough, he says, and you cross the borders between the
living and the dead. Sylvia knows she'll follow him into the depths
of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again? Praise
for David Almond: "A master storyteller." Independent
"Spell-binding... impossible to resist... breathless, intoxicating
prose. [Almond's] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly
universe, outside all the trends in modern publishing, yet
resolutely of the now." Glasgow Herald "David Almond's books are
strange, unsettling wild things - unfettered by the normal
constraints of children's literature. They are, like all great
literature, beyond classification." Guardian "[David Almond] is
that rare thing - a writer of lucid, mature elegance, who can still
see the world through adolescent eyes." Daily Telegraph
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