The Lost Girl King

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‘The Lost Girl King echoes Lord of the Rings and Narnia, whilst being original and fresh. It’s sure to become a classic of its own’ – Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars’A glorious gulp of a summer adventure’ – Piers Torday, author of The Lost Wild’Nobody writes peril, wit and wonder as well as Catherine Doyle … a modern Diana Wynne Jones’ – Dave Rudden, author of Irish Children’s Book of the Year, Knights of the Borrowed Dark**********From the author of the bestselling Storm Keeper trilogy comes a new, spellbinding adventure…

Amy and Liam Bell have been packed off to stay at Gran’s house in the wilds of Connemara for the summer. Out for a walk on the first morning of their holiday, they trace the flight of a hawk to a nearby waterfall – only to watch the bird disappear through it. Intrigued, the children follow and soon realise they’ve discovered the entrance to Tir na n

Og, the legendary land of eternal youth.

But they’ve been tricked. Almost immediately Liam is captured by a troop of headless horsemen who take him to Tarlock, the ruling sorcerer of Tir na n

Og, who is seeking the bones of a human child for a sinister new spell.

Packed with edge-of-your seat adventure, incredible imagination, humour and warmth, The Lost Girl King is the rare kind of story that has you reading long past lights out.