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BONE MUSIC - DAVID ALMOND GEBUNDEN

From the bestselling  award-winning David Almond comes a book of hope and joy: under a
boundless starry sky  the unforgettable Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For
readers of Michael Morpurgo and Katherine Rundell  from the author of the beloved Skellig.She
felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What was that music?Sylvia has never been so far
away. Her mother has brought her to this village  this place of silence and dark  endless
forest  and she yearns for the city  the bright lights  her friends  even a phone signal.Late
one night she hears the music  a weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel  a
troubled  beautiful boy.Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes  a hollow bone. Play it well
enough  he says  and you cross the borders between the living and the dead.Sylvia knows she'll
follow him into the depths of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again?Praise
for David Almond:A master storyteller. IndependentSpell-binding... impossible to resist...
breathless  intoxicating prose. [Almond's] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly
universe  outside all the trends in modern publishing  yet resolutely of the now. Glasgow
HeraldDavid Almond's books are strange  unsettling wild things - unfettered by the normal
constraints of children's literature. They are  like all great literature  beyond
classification. Guardian[David Almond] is that rare thing - a writer of lucid  mature elegance
who can still see the world through adolescent eyes. Daily Telegraph

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