And the Wildness

And the Wildness

by Susan Maxwell
And the Wildness

And the Wildness

by Susan Maxwell

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Overview

"So the actual reason I was calling you is because—get this—I am not going to Prague this summer at all. Surprise! Thanks, Villa. Just ruin my life for me."


Villa Grace is in disgrace. Her expulsion from school has ruined the prospect of a family holiday in imperial Prague, where her mother is organising a conference. Two of her three siblings are barely speaking to her, as all four face into a 'holiday' sweltering on Cobwell Farm in the back of beyond of drought-stricken Hibernia.


But the power-hungry St. Maur Ker family has breached the border between mortal and sídhe for their own gain. Cobwell, on the threshold of myth, is about to become the centre of a battle between older, wilder forces and the technomantic ambitions of one of the empire's great aristo–corporate clans.


Caught up in this conflict, the children are forced to face up to the dark underbelly of their parents' corporate environment, and to confront their own conflicting ambitions and loyalties.


For readers of all ages.

"Gorgeous and hilarious and profound." Siobhán Parkinson


Product Details

BN ID: 2940161006559
Publisher: Bibliotheque des Refuses
Publication date: 04/07/2023
Series: Flux Avellana
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Susan Maxwell is an independent author and scholar who has had short stories and poetry published in magazines and anthologies, and a short story collection (Fluctuation in Disorder) independently published; has had one novel (Good Red Herring) published by Little Island Books, and a further three (Hollowmen, And the Wildness, and A Wild Goose Hunt) independently published; has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards; has a PhD in Archival Science and writes on themes related to archives and fiction; reviews regularly for Inis (the magazine of Children’s Books Ireland); is influenced most by speculative and modernist fiction, being particularly fond of Flann O'Brien, Calvino, Beckett, and Woolf.

When not writing, or painting, or being an archivist, the author can be found in the vegetable patch, listening to music, reading books, watching old detective series, or catching up on sleep.

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