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Story Singer

Sheila Rance, Author

Paperback

Imprint: Orion Children's Books

Publication date: May 7, 2015

Category: Fantasy

ISBN: 9781444015256

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The land of Khandar needs silk. The moths must dance in the palace garden and Tareth must weave once again.

As Maia races across the Vast with the last of the cocoons, she knows the future of the Sun City lies in her hands. But her sister, Elin, will stop at nothing to steal back what was hers and see Caspia crowned as Sun Catcher and Queen.

The silk sighs its secrets and Maia realises that now, more than ever, she must find a Story Singer to sing by her side.

Reviews

Flame-haired Maia has known she was different from the Cave Dwellers since the day many years before when she and her father Tareth were washed up, half-drowned, on their beach. But now she is thirteen, and her destiny as the Sun Catcher who must save a distant land from failed harvests and starvation is slowly revealed to her.

THE BOOKBAG

... it's hard not to be won over by the zest and originality of Sheila Rance's debut novel Sun Catcher, set in the Bronze Age Far East... Sun Catcher is a fine and unusual children's tale.

THE TELEGRAPH

And so the quest is set in this, although first part of a trilogy, completely self-contained story. Reading the book what came across was a love of nature what with the animals such as the leopard, eagle, lizard and moths that adorn the cover. Plus the animals have names, and the relationships with the humans are close, together with a touch of magic.

BOOKISH VARIETY

Sheila Rance

Sheila grew up by the sea, which is probably why Maia’s adventures in Sun Catcher start among cliff dwellers, wholive at the edge of the ocean. She started writing Sun Catcher when studying for an MA at Bath Spa University and won the United Agents’ Prize for the most promising writer on the course in her final year.

When she’s not thinking about Maia’s adventures, she works with dyslexic pupils in a mainstream comprehensive.

She is currently writing the second book in the trilogy, Storm Chaser.

Visit her website at http://www.sheilarance.co.uk/ and follow her on Twitter @SARance_Author