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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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7th June 2012

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781780338330

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September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland – well, of course, she accepts (mightn’t you?).

When she gets there, she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess – she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do, September sets out to Fix Things.

As September forges her way through Fairyland, with a book-loving dragon and a boy named Saturday by her side, she makes many friends and mistakes, losing her shadow, her shoes and her way. But she finds adventure, courage, a rather special Spoon, and a lot more besides . . .

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Reviews

Cory Doctorow
Sweet fairytale, shot through with salty tears - magic! Like all the very best young adult novels, this is a book that can (and should be!) enjoyed by grown-ups too.
Sunday Telegraph
An Alice in Wonderland for the 21st century... So effortless, so vivid, so funny. Every page has a phrase or observation to savour and her characters are wondrous creations.
Lev Grossman
If you haven't heard of Catherynne Valente, give it time. She's only 32, and she's writing at a furious pace. Valente brings fathomless inventiveness to her fiction. This is nominally a book for young adults, but it's definitely rich and strange enough for grown-ups, too.
Bliss magazine
Pure escapism
Independent on Sunday
A whole esoteric world of whimsy - Alice meets the Wizard of Oz meets the Persephone story with a whiff of Narnia.
Vogue
Get swept away by this charming book
Financial Times
Bundles of imagination and wry wit... This is a sophisticated world of forfeits, paradoxes and tricks.
Neil Gaiman
A glorious balancing act between modernism and the Victorian Fairy Tale, done with heart and wisdom.
Holly Black
A mad, toothsome romp of a fairy tale - full of oddments, whimsy, and joy.