Description

Sixteen-year-old Ginny's life is secure. She's turning out to be a brilliant artist like her mother, who died when she was a baby and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny's world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. And Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she's never known ...

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A compelling teenage mystery by one of the world's greatest children's writers now with a striking new cover look

Author description

Philip Pullman is one of the best known children's writers in the world today. He is the acclaimed author of novels, short stories and plays for readers of all ages. He has received many accolades and awards for his books for children. The first volume of the His Dark Materials Trilogy, NORTHERN LIGHTS, won the 1996 Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the British Book Award. The final part of the Trilogy THE AMBER SPYGLASS won both the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the main Whitbread Book of the Year awards in 2001. THE FIREWORK-MAKER'S DAUGHTER won the 1996 Smarties Gold Award. CLOCKWORK was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year 1997, and for the Carnegie Medal. He lives in Oxford.