An award-winning and magical story reissued with a stunning new cover look

• Originally published in 2002 to huge critical acclaim, this book went on to win the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Silver Medal
• Remarkable debut by an author who has since gone on to write many more great books
• Will appeal to fans of writers like David Almond
• This stunning reissue should get the book into the hands of many new fans
• The new edition being published alongside the author's latest book The Truth Sayer: March of the Owlmen and a reissue of another favourite, Goldkeeper

"one of those rare, strange, wonderful books that makes you see the world through different eyes" - The Guardian

"outstanding" - The Sunday Times

"the finest first novel I have read since David Almond's Skellig" - Glasgow Herald

"enthralling and original" - The Bookseller