Lady Friday: Book 5 (The Keys to the Kingdom) - Softcover

Nix, Garth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007175094 ISBN 13: 9780007175093

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2007

Synopsis

Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix’s best selling fantasy series,The Keys to the Kingdom.

Arthur Penhaligon’s adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear…

Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door.

Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing and so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a 'Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes.

Amid all this trouble, Arthur’s mother is also missing, and he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize – before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it.

About this title

About the Author

Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing’Hail the Conquering Hero Comes’ or possibly’Roll Out the Barrel’. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a boot full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter. He is now an award-winning author and one of the most influential names in contemporary fantasy.

From the Back Cover

The Keys to the Kingdom

International bestselling magical adventure series
"Only Arthur is allowed to enter the secret place of the Winged Servants of the Night. If the Beast does not eat him, he will return safely."
Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Now he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize. The race is on to find the secret of the middle house.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007175094
• ISBN 13: 9780007175093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384