In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen

The start of an epic new fantasy trilogy from bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave. 'Destined to be a classic' Garth Nix' A stunning adventure' Cressida Cowell 'Fierce, lyrical ... an earth-shattering fantasy' Piers Torday

The earth is stirring . . .Ysolda has lived her life in the shadow of the wolf queen's tyrannical rule but, safe in her forest haven, she has never truly felt its threat. Until one day when a mysterious earthquake shakes the land, and her older sister Hari vanishes in its wake. Accompanied by her loyal sea hawk, Nara, Ysolda embarks on a desperate rescue mission. But when she is forced to strike a bargain with the wolf queen herself, she soon finds herself embroiled in a quest for a magic more powerful - and more dangerous - than she could ever have imagined ...From the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars, Julia and the Shark and The Mercies, the Geomancer trilogy is a new modern classic for readers young and old.

The kind of fantasy adventure I have always loved: evocative and imaginative and destined to be a classic, A stunning adventure story - masterly storytelling from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Fierce, lyrical and compulsively readable; an earth-shattering fantasy, The Wolf Queen herself is majestically ambiguous, sometimes magnetic and inspiring, sometimes chilling. And every adventure is better with giant sea wolves, Bold, breathtaking and unbelievably beautiful fantasy

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning, bestselling novelist. Her debut story for children The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. Her work has been short- and long-listed for numerous major prizes including the Costa Award and the CILIP Carnegie Award, and her novel Julia and the Shark, illustrated by Tom de Freston, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and named Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year. She's a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.

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