![]() The Girl Who Speaks Bear(Usborne) is not a sequel as such, but it finds second-time author Sophie Anderson diving back into the wintry wilderness of Russian folk tales. ![]() The prize is the lives of their parents, and the lives of the rest of the passengers of a ship that might, or might not, have been lost at sea in the Baltic in 1870.Īnyone browsing a bookshop’s children’s section in 2018 won’t have missed The House With Chicken Legs, shortlisted for a clutch of awards. Her assured plot swings audaciously between alternate realities, as another pair of twins, Maria and Celeste, are forced to play a confounding, dangerous dream-game: the Reckoning. ![]() Fourteen years have passed since Gardner’s last middle-years novel, I Coriande r, and her latest, Invisible in a Bright Light (Zephyr), is set in a Copenhagen theatre full of backstage drama. Although not quite as much of a household name, the prize-winning Gardner is another dab hand at literary world-creation. ![]() Sally Gardner has been absent from the middle-years lists for some time, too. From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light: Sally Gardner. ![]()
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