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A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics such as The Owl Service by Alan Garner, Whistle Down the Wind by Mary Hayley Bell and Skellig by David Almond, the protagonist’s story is told in the pure, clear voice we have come to expect from this astonishingly accomplished and powerful young writer. Sally Nicholls is simply an exceptionally talented writer, who writes beautifully. Her intelligent, warm fiction is honest and profound, complex yet accessible.
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Season of Secrets Synopsis
On a wild and stormy night Molly runs away from her grandparent's
house. Her dad has sent her to live there until he Sorts Things
Out at home.
In the howling darkness, Molly sees a desperate figure running for
his life from a terrifying midnight hunt. He has come to help her.
But why? And who is he?
SEASON OF SECRETS weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old
legend into a haunting story of love, healing and strange
magic.
"A cracking book" - Jacqueline Wilson
"Poignant and gripping" - The Bookseller
Sally Nicholls was named Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year. Her
first book WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER won numerous awards including the
Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the North East Book Award.
It was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and longlisted
for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
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9781407105147 |
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4th January 2010 |
| Author: |
Sally Nicholls |
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Marion Lloyd an imprint of Scholastic |
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Paperback |
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254 pages |
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About Sally Nicholls
I was born in Stockton-on-Tees, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. My father died when I was two, and my brother Ian and I were brought up my mother. I always wanted to write - when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say "I'm going to be a writer" - very definite.
I've always loved reading, and I spent most of my childhood trying to make real life as much like a book as possible. My friends and I had a secret club like the Secret Seven, and when I was nine I got most of my hair cut off because I wanted to look like George in the Famous Five. I was a real tomboy - I liked riding my bike, climbing trees and building dens in our garden. And I liked making up stories. I used to wander round my school playground at break, making up stories in my head.
I went to two secondary schools - a little Quaker school in North Yorkshire (where it was so cold that thick woolly jumpers were part of the school uniform) and a big comprehensive. I was very lonely at the little school, but I made friends at the comprehensive and got on all right. I didn't like being a teenager very much, though.
After school, I got to be an adult, which was fantastic. I went and worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Japan and then travelled around Australia and New Zealand. I jumped off bridges and tall buildings, climbed Mount Doom, wore a kimono and went to see a ballet in the Sydney Opera House. Then I came back and did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick. In my third year, realising with some panic that I was now supposed to earn a living, I enrolled in a masters in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa. It was here that I wrote Ways to Live Forever. I also won the prize for the writer with most potential, through which I got my agent. Four months later, I had a publisher.
I now live in a little house in Oxford, writing stories, and trying to believe my luck.
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