She’d never seen this part of Nevermoor before. Morrigan wished she could take a moment to stop and look around. “A child!” she heard the blue-fingered woman exclaim in her wake. For a moment, she lost sight of Jupiter through the haze, but then she spotted the top of his bright copper head, bobbing up and down in the crowd, and sprinted to catch up with him. “Ugh, foul.” Morrigan coughed and waved the smoke away. Morrigan hurried after him and walked into a sickly-sweet-smelling cloud of sapphire-blue smoke, puffed right at her face by a woman holding a thin gold cigarillo in her blue-stained fingertips.

Catch up.”Īnd he was gone again, running headlong through the mess of pedestrians and rickshaws and horse-drawn carriages and motorized coaches. Jupiter North turned back but didn’t stop moving. “Wait!” she called out to him, pushing her way through a knot of women wearing satin gowns and lush velvet cloaks. She tried her best to smooth it down while hurrying to catch up with her patron, who was already yards ahead, pelting along the noisy, swarming high street of the Bohemian District. The wind had whipped her hair into a state of extreme disarray. Perfect for fans of the Harry Potter series and His Dark Materials, this series takes readers into an extraordinary world, setting hope and imagination alive.Morrigan Crow leapt from the Brolly Rail, teeth chattering, hands frozen around the end of her oilskin umbrella. Has Morrigan's dream of escaping her cursed life ended before it truly began? Society members are going missing, someone is blackmailing Morrigan's new friends, turning them against her.Īnd Ezra Squall, the evillest man who ever lived, is determined to lure Morrigan from the Society by promising to reveal the true nature of the Wunder that calls to her, which is becoming ever harder to resist. To make things worse, Nevermoor is quickly turning from a place of safety into one of danger. So, instead of the Society helping Morrigan to embrace her power, she is only taught that all Wundersmiths are evil and she must suppress her mysterious ability at all costs.

It promises her protection and belonging for life - but then Morrigan doesn't receive the welcome she hoped for. Imagination, discovery and friendship await Morrigan Crow when she escapes her deadly curse and joins the Wundrous Society. Return to the magical world of Nevermoor, where Morrigan Crow's adventures continue in the sequel to Nevermoor, the Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018 Younger Fiction Category

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