Deeplight
Frances Hardinge
Ages 12 to 16
02 April 2020
9781509897568Synopsis
Enter a fantastical, underwater world in Deeplight, from Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree.
'One of our finest storytellers,' – Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Now the gods are dead, but their remains are stirring beneath the waves . . .
On the streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live 14-year-old urchins Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But there is something dangerous in the deep waters of the undersea, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it.
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 . . .
Hardinge creates an entire world and furnishes it with wonders. Pure magic.M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right nowPatrick Ness
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
