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A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild and sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to clash with that of human beings, their livelihood is threatened with extinction. This is a wonderfully imaginative story of love and loyalty, and is the first in a powerful trilogy.
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The idea of a race of little people (fairies) living secretly among us has had a powerful hold on the imaginations of writers from Shakespeare to Terry Pratchettand Eoin Colfer. In The Various, Steve Augarde has used this fascination brilliantly to craft the first novel of a trilogy full of breathless action and wonder. When 12-year-old Midge is sent by her concert-violinist mother to spend the summer at the farm of her sweet but bungling Uncle Brian, her initial resentment gives way to delight in the freedom of exploring the countryside. When she discovers a tiny winged horse lying wounded in an outbuilding, she is awestruck to find out that he comes from a civilisation of five various tribes of little people living in a nearby wood—-something readers will have already learned from alternate chapters set in the fairy world.
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Disaster threatens when Uncle Brian plans to sell the wood to a developer, and Midge and her cousins find (to their peril), that some of the little people are not as helpless as they seem. Steve Augarde draws on his visual and auditory skills as a BBC animator and picture book author/illustrator for vividly realised detail--the dumpy and addled fairy queen, the smells and moods of the English summer, the sharply differentiated accents and personalities of each of the five tribes--in an entrancing debut fantasy. The book is recommended for ages 10-14. --Patty Campbell, Amazon.com
"A charming story" (The Times)
"An exciting and absorbing novel . . . completely believable" (Carousel)
"The story unfolds, with its mixture of fantasy and real life, in a most engaging and enthralling way" (Oxford Times)
"A well paced, absorbing fantasy . . . Augarde builds up the complex backstory to a brilliantly-handled climax" (Saxon Bullock SFX)
"An exciting and absorbing novel . . . completely believable" (Carousel)
"The story unfolds, with its mixture of fantasy and real life, in a most engaging and enthralling way" (Oxford Times)
"A well paced, absorbing fantasy . . . Augarde builds up the complex backstory to a brilliantly-handled climax" (Saxon Bullock SFX)
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- PublisherCorgi Childrens
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0552548588
- ISBN 13 9780552548588
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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