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Deeplight
- Author
- Frances Hardinge
- Narrator
- Joshua Akehurst
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 31 October 2019
- Run Time
- 12 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
'One of our finest storytellers' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
'Pure magic' M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
From Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight - an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves . . .
The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they rose up and tore each other apart, killing many hundreds of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.
On the jumbled streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.
Nothing is quite as it seems, and when the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .
Critics Review
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Hardinge creates an entire world and furnishes it with wonders. Pure magic.
M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
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Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now
Patrick Ness
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In Deeplight, Hardinge's unparalleled, terrifying imagination illuminates an underwater world filled with the potent debris of departed gods, and the desperate ambitions of the humans who seek it. No one else writes quite like her - every new book is something extraordinary to be celebrated.
Imogen Russell Williams
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Electrifyingly good
New Statesman
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A novel by Hardinge is always an event
Sunday Times
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Frances Hardinge has joined the company of writers whose books I will always seek out and read
Garth Nix
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There is no mistaking the distinctive voice and vividly crafted prose of Frances Hardinge. She is a writer who delights in language, and whose stories fizz with ideas, allusions and eccentric detail
Metro
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Costa award-winner Hardinge is on top form.
Daily Mail
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The high priestess of Gothic brings a whole world to meticulous and terrifying life, as two boys stumble upon a secret as frightening as it is wonderful. Deeply, marvellously haunting.
i Weekend
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A magical fantasy adventure from the award-winning author of The Lie Tree.
Sunday Express
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A feat of impressive world-building and imagination.
The Times - Children's Books of the Year
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This is a dazzling deep-sea tale.
The Financial Times
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Hardinge’s surreal powers of world-building combine with her astute understanding of relationships to create a weird, wonderful, beguiling novel.
The Guardian - Best Books of the Year
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Frances Hardinge is among the most original writers working today and Deeplight (Macmilllan) one of her finest books yet. She's a writer who defies easy categorisation; this will entice older children and beyond.
The Observer - The New Review
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Frances Hardinge is among the most original writers working today and Deeplight (Macmillan) one of her finest books yet. Here, her dazzling imagination has conjured the Myriad archipelago, a strange world of undersea gods, lush mythology and Lovecraftian submersibles. Two very human boys, orphans turned scavengers, make a dangerous
discovery that drives a thrilling and unpredictable plot. She’s a writer who defies easy categorisation; this will entice older children and far beyondObserver
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The writing is exquisite and adults will enjoy it as much as teenagers
Daily Express - Christmas Books round-up
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It’s a great adventure, you really believe in the world that Frances has created
CLPE
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Details
- Author
- Frances Hardinge
- Narrator
- Joshua Akehurst
- Duration
- 12 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529014723
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures
Synopsis
'One of our finest storytellers' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent'Pure magic' M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the GiftsFrom Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight - an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves . . . The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they rose up and tore each other apart, killing many hundreds of islanders and changing the Myriad forever. On the jumbled streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.Nothing is quite as it seems, and when the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .
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