![]() ![]() Taking refuge in the Hotel Deucalion, residence of a vampire dwarf and a giant talking feline, Morrigan must take part in near-impossible trials in order to enter the prestigious Wundrous Society and escape a band of ghostly hunters.Īmelia Lush, manager of Better Read Than Dead, Newtown, was the first bookseller in the country to read Nevermoor, having arrived at her house as an unmarked manuscript with no synopsis and no age recommendation. Morrigan Crow, Nevermoor's feisty heroine, is a cursed child born to die on her 12th birthday, but rescued from her grim fate by a stranger, the dashing Captain Jupiter North. Townsend wrote the book over 10 years, starting it the year she left high school, and had begun selling souvenir T-shirts and squeezy crocodiles at Australia Zoo, graduating to co-editor of the zoo's children's wildlife magazine. ![]() Nevermoor is the first in a magical series for children aged between eight and 12. My agent will even now email me good news and I don't know how to respond to it, because everything is way beyond what I could have imagined." "In all honesty I hit shock very early on and I've kind of stayed there ever since. Credit: Frankfurter Buchmesse/Alexander Heimann ![]() ![]() No fewer than eight major publishing houses were vying for rights to Townsend's first Nevermoor book at last year's Frankfurt Book Fair, pictured. ![]()
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