Foreshadowing, The

Sedgwick, Marcus

ISBN 10: 1842552198 / ISBN 13: 9781842552193

Published by Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), London, United Kingdom, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Foreshadowing, The

Publisher: Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), London, United Kingdom

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First UK edition/First Printing

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Synopsis:

It is 1915. 17 year old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and worse still, what will happen to Edgar and Tom. Like the prophetess Cassandra, who foretold the tragedies of Troy, Sasha is trapped by power. No one will believe her. Her family have lost faith in her. She is determined to win them back, whatever the price. And it is a high one - seeing the future is a fate almost too awful to contemplate - for who wants to see the end of their own story...?

Stylishly written in his familiar, poetic prose the story is that of a world full of threat and a child in jeopardy - but with a heroine resourceful enough to try to change the path of Fate.

About the Author:

Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author. His first novel, Floodland, won the Branford Boase Award for the best debut children's novel of 2000. Since then his books have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Costa Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He lives near Cambridge.

Find his website at www.marcussedgwick.com and follow him on Twitter @marcussedgwick.