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Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday, July 9, 2006 As baroque and bonkers as anything dreamt up by Mervyn Peake or Joan Aiken --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Product Description In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace...
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Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday, July 9, 2006 As baroque and bonkers as anything dreamt up by Mervyn Peake or Joan Aiken --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Product Description In a fractured realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan and her loyal companion, a large and homicidal goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a revolution. Mosca Mye has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. Now he is dead, and Mosca is on the run, in search of a better life. With Eponymous Clent, a smooth-tongued swindler, she heads for the city of Mandelion, living by her wits among highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers, secret agents and radical plotters. But the city is in uproar, for someone is once again printing seditious material and no one is quite what they seem. With suspicion and peril at every... See less
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