Waterstones The Ice Garden
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Price: £3.50
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Tom's Midnight Garden meets The Secret Garden in this mystical, classic-feeling adventure!'A beautiful book that touches on friendship and the unbreakablebond between a protective parent and her child.' THESUN' Elegant, assured, sad and hilarious' GUARDIAN Jess is allergic to the sun. She lives in a world of shadows andhospitals, peeking at the other children in the playground frombehind curtains. Her only friend is a boy in a coma, to whom shetells stories. One night she sneaks out to explore the empty playground she'slonged to visit, where she discovers a beautiful impossiblity: amagical garden wrought of ice. But Jess isn't alone in this fragile, in-between place. We're launching a startling debut talent into the middle-grademarket in this classic-feeling magical-realist story, fullof wonder and warmth. A tale of loneliness, friendship and the healing powerof love, set between the real, contemporary world and world ofice and magic - sure to capture the imaginations of readers. Shadows of classics such as Tom's Midnight Garden and The Secret Garden, contemporarysetting yet utterly timeless in feel and theme. Waterstones The Ice Garden - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781911490043
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781911490043