APHRAS CHILD (CHIMERA TRILOGY 1)

Prize-winning novelist Lesley Glaister brings all her storytelling skills to this dark and magical fantasy about a young girl, Tula, who inhabits a frightening world where hiding your differences may be the only way to survive, and trusting the wrong person can be fatal. Exploring the issues of betrayal, resistance, the strength of love and the intricacies of teenage relationships, the novel combines inventive fantasy with bewitching writing that will draw in readers of Pullman, Rowling and Joan Aiken.