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Townsend's intensely cinematic writing, quirky humour and superior world-building conjure a genuinely fresh take on magical fantasy

Fiona Noble – The Bookseller

The subject of a heated publishers' auction, Townsend's debut fully lives up to the hype

Mail on Sunday

Utterly mesmerising from start to finish, Nevermoor is a masterful piece of storytelling, full of wonderful characters and world so rich in magical detail you'll think you've actually stepped into it.

Claire Fayers, author of Accidental Pirates: Voyage to Magical North

Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is more than just a spectacular debut. Exciting, charming, and wonderfully imagined, it's the sort of delightful grand adventure destined to be many a reader's favorite book

Trenton Lee Stewart, author of The Mysterious Benedict Society

Funny and delightful

The Sunday Times, children’s book of the week

'Welcome to your new obsession, Harry Potter fans. This perfectly measured combination of mystery, magic, a loveable heroine and an engrossing plot is one of our favourite children's novels of 2017'

iBooks Review

A wonderful, warm-hearted magical adventure [that] will instantly draw you in

S Magazine - Sunday Express

Charming, magical and the perfect book to lose yourself in during the Christmas break...

The School Run

'This magical debut novel is a dazzling and engrossing feat of imagination'

Daily Express

'Written with a wonderful deadpan humour and sharp dialogue, this is a must for the next Harry Potter generation'

Daily Mail

The plot is fast-paced, there is a pleasing mix of menace and humour and Morrigan is an appealing, compelling hero, always ready to 'step boldly' into the dangerous and enticing world of Nevermoor.

The School Librarian

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Books Prize, Younger Fiction Category. Shortlisted for the IBW Book Award, Children's Fiction.

Jessica Townsend's writing is very satisfying and her pen masterfully creates a magical world which is mostly unique. A demanding, but satisfying, read, but readers will be readers will be rewarded with an absorbing story, with pace, plot and character aplenty.

The Carousel

I was gripped reading this fantastic, magical adventure.

Mini Travellers

Magical 'middle-grade' fiction became the hot ticket, in adventures like Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor

The Guardian

'A full-speed joy of a book; funny, quick-footed, and wildly, magically inventive'

Katherine Rundell - author of IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES

Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical . . . quite simply one of the best children's books I've read in years

Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike

An extraordinary story full of magics great and small, from the Hotel Deucalion to the Magnificat . . . Townsend has created a book of wunders. In Morrigan Crow I've found a heroine I'm willing to step boldly after, and follow her wherever her adventure takes her next

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS

Endlessly inventive, with a fresh delight on every page, Nevermoor rewrites the genre of the Chosen Child novel. This is a special book.

David Solomons, author of MY BROTHER IS A SUPERHERO

Townsend's debut fully lives up to its hype

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