The dreadful secret that Torak carries with him at the close of SOUL EATER is revealed and he is cast out from the clans. It's his fourteenth summer. He's alone, cut off even from Wolf and Renn. Hunted and on the run he takes refuge in unknown territory - the haunted reedbeds of Lake Axehead, where he is menaced by the Hidden People. Other threats lurk nearby and his battle with the Soul-Eaters is far from over ...As he fights for his life Torak uncovers a deception too awful to contemplate, one that shakes him to the core and shatters his world.
Born in Malawi to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny 'Nyasaland Times', Michelle Paver moved to the UK when she was three. She was brought up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a big City law firm. She gave up the City to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer. Successfully published as an adult author, the CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS are her first - brilliant - books for children.
Title: Outcast: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness book 4
Author: Michelle Paver
ISBN: 9781842551738
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Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Publication Date: 2007-09-06
Number of Pages: 272
Weight: 0.4583 kg
'sad and touching' BLISS His (Torak) adventures in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series have been thrilling from the first page, and he has become a great hero for the new generation THE TIMES Often dark and hallucinatory in its imagery, the book combines a crispness of style and a powerful understanding of loneliness, love, fear and friendship with a vivid landscape...gripping THE SUNDAY TIMES This is an amazing book -- Sebastian Johnson SUNDAY EXPRESS Gripping... action-packed OBSERVER A triumph INDEPENDENT Absorbing GUARDIAN Paver's prose is brisk and she has enough confidence in the solidity of her world to need no over-elaboration...at the same time, there's a relentless pageturning drive to the narrative GUARDIAN Paver's skilful storytelling leads the reader off on a compelling journey SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY Impossible to put down... packed with action, mystery and strong friendship THE SUNDAY HERALD