The Stolen Lake - Hardcover

Aiken, Joan

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618070206 ISBN 13: 9780618070206

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

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Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA and NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET will welcome her return in her wildest adventure yet. Now back in print, THE CUCKOO TREE and THE STOLEN LAKE continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, THE STOLEN LAKE is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. On her way back to London aboard the British man-of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite finds herself and the crew summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. A neighboring king has stolen the queen’s lake and is holding it for ransom, and it’s up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back — or else.

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Review:

"The Stolen Lake is zanier and more devilishly fiendish than ever" (The New York Times)

"A natural storyteller with the gift of endless and usually comic invention" (Guardian)

"Joan Aiken's imagination is inexhaustible" (Daily Telegraph)

"Joan Aiken is the best contemporary writer of historical fantasy we have" (Susan Hill)

Book Description:

Dido Twite in American New Cumbria on her wildest adventure yet.

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