A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1 (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, 1) - Hardcover

Dabos, Christelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609454839 ISBN 13: 9781609454838

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2018

Synopsis

The French pocket edition of A Winter's Promise sold well over 150,000 copies, and the original trade edition sold close to 100,000 copies: 250,000 altogether.

About this title

About the Authors

Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d’Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. The Mirror Visitor, her debut series, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-Télérama First Novel Competition, and every book in the series has proved to be a runaway bestseller. A Winter’s Promise was shortlisted for Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize in 2019. Her latest novel We was published by Europa in 2026. 

Since graduating in French from Oxford University, Hildegarde Serle has worked in London as a subeditor, mainly on The Independent. In 2011, she did the CIOL Diploma in Translation. She still lives in London, but her heart lives on the Quai aux Fleurs in Paris.

From the Back Cover

Long ago, following a cataclysm called "The Tear," the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways and at a different pace; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of these Arks the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides.



Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, Ophelia hides two powers: the ability to extract the souls from objects, and the ability to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. The young girl must leave her family and follow her fiancé to the Citacielle, the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn't know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.



An unforgettable heroine, a rich and bountiful universe, romance and inescapable intrigue, A Winter's Promise will appeal equally to readers of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy and the Harry Potter books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609454839
• ISBN 13: 9781609454838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 492