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The Book of Dead Days

By Marcus Sedgwick

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| Paperback | 9781842552674

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The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days - days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servanContinue

The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days - days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servant is Boy, a child with no name and no past; a child he treats with contempt, but who serves his master well and finds solace in the company of his only friend, Willow. Unknown to any of them it is Boy who holds the key to their destiny. Set in dark threatening cities and the frozen countryside in a distant time and place of the author's making, 'The Book of Dead Days' conjures a spell-binding story of sorcery and desperate magic as Valerian, Boy and Willow battle to stop time and cling to life. Beautifully evoked, dramatic and emotionally powerful, this is a real page turner.

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  • Through a lens darkly

    The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick 264pp, Orion, £8.99 Cameras obscura - careful with that plural - don't feature much in children's books, then suddenly two come along at once; one in Alex Shearer's The Speed of the Dark and the other in Marcu ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS

    THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS is set in the days between Christmas and New Year’s, which the author refers to as dead days, "... a strange a quiet interlude, somehow outside the rest of the year, outside time itself." It is in these last few days of the year ... (read full critics)

    teenreads published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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