• Marita Conlon-McKenna - Fairy Hill - BRAND NEW - PB - 2023

    • Marita Conlon-McKenna - Fairy Hill - BRAND NEW - PB - 2023

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    Thirteen-year-old Anna is upset when she is sent to stay with her dad and his new family at Fairy Hill in the west of Ireland. Hearing whispers in the wind, Anna senses she is being watched, but nobody believes her except the mysterious boy down by the lake. When her little half-brother, Jack, nearly gets lost, Anna suspects that someone is trying to steal him away. She wonders if the stories about the old house and the fairies are true. And if they are, could Jack be in real danger?

    MARITA CONLON-McKENNA is one of Ireland’s most popular, award-winning children’s authors. She has written numerous award-winning and best-selling books, and they have been translated into many languages. Under the Hawthorn Tree, her first novel, became an immediate bestseller and has been described as ‘the biggest success story in children’s historical fiction’. Its sequels, Wildflower Girl and Fields of Home, which complete the Children of the Famine trilogy, have also been hugely successful.

    Other books by Marita Conlon-McKenna include: No Goodbye, Safe Harbour, The Blue Horse, In Deep Dark Wood, and A Girl Called Blue.

    From the Irish Times, super recommendation
    ‘new novel from Marita Conlon-McKenna, one of Ireland’s best-known children’s storytellers. Set in Sligo, it follows 13-year-old Londoner Anna, who has returned to her father’s homestead under the shadow of Ben Bulben for the summer. The journey she takes is metaphorical too, as Anna tries to find a place for herself in her father’s new family. Anna’s family circumstances give Conlon-McKenna a rich social real-world context against which to place the otherworldly aspects of the story, which sings into a long history of Irish legend and lore … Conlon-McKenna’s clever positioning of Anna’s rational fears beside the enchanted fantasy adds a thrilling edge, suggesting that the boundaries between the two worlds are even thinner than legends might have us believe’

     

    I’ve read this and it’s brilliant! It’s Marita at her best ... this cracking new book features a brave girl who fights back against the fairies who are determined to steal her little brother away  

     Sarah Webb

    wonderful ... a page turning adventure full of bravery, fairies & friendship. Highly recommended

     Halfway Up the Stairs

    Set in the west of Ireland with inspiration drawn from Irish folklore and culture, 13-year-old Anna is thrown into the deep end when sent from London to spend time with her father and his new family. But when beguiling and bewildering events occur, Anna has a feeling there might be some truth in the tall tales she’s told about the landscape she finds herself in … Another triumph from one of Ireland’s most beloved authors

     Irish Examiner

    Marita is back … Marita when she’s on song usually hits it out of the park … really strong buzz, really excited for this 

     

     Dave O’Callaghan, Here & Back Again pod

    Feels like the book every primary school has been waiting for, for the last 30 years

     

     Elaina Ryan, CBI, on Here & Back Again pod

    A contemporary story of family and love, stepped in ancient myth and folklore

     Children's Books Ireland in the Irish Examiner

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