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Prospero's children

A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side ...?

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  • "A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side ...?"@en
  • "A young girl who is more than she knows. A man who is more than he seems. A beautiful woman in love with death. An evil older than mankind. All in search of a magical key that will open a door leading beyond time and space to the ending of all things.This fantasy adventure, first in a trilogy, unlocks the secrets of ancient Atlantis and of a young girl's heart, revealing a world of never-to-be-forgotten wonders and terrors."
  • "English fantasy at its finest, the first in this exciting new trilogy steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld. A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side?? This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero?s Children steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and..."
  • "Sixteen-year-old Fern Chapel rediscovers the secret and powerful magic of Atlantis."@en
  • "First in a trilogy, this extraordinary novel introduces sixteen-year-old Fern Chapel, a young woman who is about to rediscover the secret and powerful magic of Atlantis."@en
  • "A young girl who is more than she knows. A man who is more than he seems. A beautiful woman in love with death. An evil older than mankind. All in search of a magical key that will open a door leading beyond time and space to the ending of all things. This fantasy adventure, first in a trilogy, unlocks the secrets of ancient Atlantis and of a young girl's heart, revealing a world of never-to-be-forgotten wonders and terrors."@en
  • ""It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man, its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race."--Jacket."@en
  • "A lyrical, captivating first novel of mermaids, magic, lost worlds, and found souls that deserves the large and enthusiastic audience."@en
  • "Two children on vacation gradually discover a world of magic where good battles evil and the sister is the first person in a thousand years to possess the ability to use the hidden talisman that can conquer one or the other."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en

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  • "Prospero's children"
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