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The Crowfield Curse
Will knows a secret.
Somewhere in the forest, behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave.
And buried deep in the snow is an angel.
But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the monks of Crowfield Abbey, who have taken care of Will since he was orphaned? And why does Will get the feeling that when he looks out, something hidden in the dusk is staring back at him?
On a bitter winter’s day in the year 1347, 14-year-old Will Paynel is sent to the forest to gather wood. He stumbles across and rescues a creature caught a trap – a hob, who comes to share with him a terrible secret. Somewhere in the forest near Crowfield Abbey, an angel lies buried. With the arrival of two strangers to the abbey, the mystery deepens. Will and the hob are drawn into a dangerous world of Old Magic, a bitter feud and ancient secrets. Will needs to unravel the truth and put right an age-old wrong if he is to survive, and time is running out…
Shortlisted for the Times Children’s Fiction Competition 2008.
Shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Prize 2010.
Selected for the 2010 Booktrust Booked Up scheme.
‘…a real page turner…it belongs in the same dark place as The Spook’s Apprentice.’ Joseph Delaney.
Published January 4th 2010. ISBN: 978-1-906427-15-3
Cover illustration by David Frankland.
