Product Description
A powerful, moving fantasy set in Elizabethan England. Deep in the woods, a child with green-tinged skin and long matted hair awakens. She is Isabella Leland, daughter of a healer wo was executed as a heretic some 300 years earlier. On her mother's death, Isabella was taken in by the crow people--faerie fold--who can manipulate space and time. The first time she returned to the real world, Catholics ruled England, Now, those who follow the Pope are regarded with suspicion and shunned. When Isabella emerges from her hiding place, she's discovered by another outcast, Elizabeth Dyer, whose family follows the old ways. Elizabeth wants to befriend Isabella, but she has her own troubles. Her brother has brought home a priest in need of shelter. Hiding him is an act of treason, and his pursuers are closing in. Sarah Singleton has a gift for blending the seen and the unseen, the matter-of-fact and the magical, into a convincing whole. Here she offers a fast-paced plot--a cat-and-mouse game between hunter and hunted--while exploring qustions about religious faith and fanaticism tht will resonate with YA readers.
About the Author
Sarah Singleton is the author of three novels for children and one for adults, all published in the U.K.
