Prospero's Children - Hardcover

Siegel, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345439015 ISBN 13: 9780345439017

Publisher: Del Rey, 2000

Synopsis

First in a trilogy, this extraordinary novel introduces sixteen-year-old Fern Chapel, a young woman who is about to rediscover the secret and powerful magic of Atlantis. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

Fern and Will, the children of a feckless art dealer find themselves sharing the remote farmhouse he has inherited with his current, and sinister, mistress. Something snuffles outside; a stone in the garden, which bears an odd resemblance to a passing tramp, moves in the night; a wolfish dog befriends them. Dreams and sleepwalking and the most remarkable video-tape ever watched provide the sixteen-year-old Fern with evidence that the world is not the controllable, rational place she thought it was, and that her own future is to be altogether more remarkable, and full of pain and wisdom, than she has expected ... Jan Siegel has taken the material of a hundred good children's fantasies and from it woven a book which hovers, like her heroine, on the brink of being fully adult, with the visionary power that often comes from inhabiting the threshold between states. Her handling of shop-worn questions like the paradoxes of time, the price of souls and the sinking of Atlantis, is as fresh and remarkable as fantasy ever gets; this impressive first novel is a classic in the making, and, it is to be hoped, the debut of a brilliant career. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

“Prospero’s Children is a piece of pure magic – a charming, eccentric, and powerfully imaginative work of fantasy which will enchant readers for years to come.” Clive Barker

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345439015
• ISBN 13: 9780345439017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350