A
Necklace of Souls
Release
Date: 12/19/14
339
pages
Summary
from Goodreads:
‘A
true dream is when the events I see in my sleep have, or will happen.
It’s a talent that runs in my family. I was thirteen when I had my
first true dream.’
Will’s Aunt says the Kingdom of the Rose is the most fortunate of lands. But Will hates the place – his uncle and aunt are horrible, and he misses his parents. Oh, how he misses them.
Dana wishes she wasn’t a princess. She’s always being told how to behave, what to wear. There’s a strangeness in the castle – why will no one talk about the Guardian, or the necklace that protects the land? And why does her father look at her with such sorrow? The collier’s cart seems the perfect escape. Only she didn’t realize she’d become so dirty, or so lost. Fortunately this boy, Will, has a sense of direction. And next to the forbidding stranger, N’tombe, he seems reassuringly normal.
Welcome to A Necklace of Souls: a story of love and loss, of shattered lives and desperate hopes. In the Kingdom of the Rose, bravery is not always measured by strength and magic is real, if only one has the courage to dream.
Will’s Aunt says the Kingdom of the Rose is the most fortunate of lands. But Will hates the place – his uncle and aunt are horrible, and he misses his parents. Oh, how he misses them.
Dana wishes she wasn’t a princess. She’s always being told how to behave, what to wear. There’s a strangeness in the castle – why will no one talk about the Guardian, or the necklace that protects the land? And why does her father look at her with such sorrow? The collier’s cart seems the perfect escape. Only she didn’t realize she’d become so dirty, or so lost. Fortunately this boy, Will, has a sense of direction. And next to the forbidding stranger, N’tombe, he seems reassuringly normal.
Welcome to A Necklace of Souls: a story of love and loss, of shattered lives and desperate hopes. In the Kingdom of the Rose, bravery is not always measured by strength and magic is real, if only one has the courage to dream.
Shortlisted
for the Sir Julius Vogel Award, A Necklace of Souls was awarded the
Tessa Duder Award for Young Adult Fiction, Best First Book at the New
Zealand Post Children and Young Adult Book Awards and is a Storylines
Notable Book.
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My
name is Rachel Stedman. I’m a physiotherapist (physical therapist)
by background, but now I work as a freelance contractor. I live in
the wild and windy place of Dunedin, New Zealand, with my husband and
two kids.
I
write mostly for children and young adults. In 2012 I won the
Tessa Duder Award for an unpublished YA work and my first novel, A
Necklace of Souls,
was published by HarperCollins in 2013 (available in the United
Kingdom and on Book Depository from June 2015). This year, A
Necklace of Souls was
awarded Best First Book at the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards and
won a Notable Book Award from Storylines. Inner
Fire is
my second novel.
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