Briony knows she is a witch. She knows that she is guilty of hurting her beloved stepmother. She also knows that, now her stepmother is dead, she must look after her beautiful but complicated twin sister, Rose. Then the energetic, electric, golden-haired Eldric arrives in her home town of Swampsea, and everything that Briony thinks she knows about herself and her life is turned magically, dizzyingly, upside down.

By:   Franny Billingsley
Imprint:   Bloomsbury
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 198mm,  Spine: 129mm
ISBN:  

9781408803844

ISBN 10:   1408803844
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   July 2012
Recommended Age:   From 12
Audience:   Young adult ,  12+ years ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Galaxy Bookshop
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Author Website:   http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=464

Franny's first novel for Bloomsbury, The Folk Keeper, was awarded many US prizes including Notable Children's Book and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Best Book of the Year (School Library Journal). Chime is Franny Billingsley's third book, her first being Well Wished. It has been shortlisted for the National Book Award. Franny lives in her home town of Chicago with her husband and two children.

Praise for The Folk Keeper: A minor masterpiece of compression: sharply written and highly engaging for 10 to 16-year-olds TES A most enchanting, original and compulsive fantasy. The reader is fascinated, drawn in from the very beginning ... The language is rich and expressive and the emotional involvement with all of the characters is developed with consummate skill and craftswomanship. Highly recommended School Librarian Praise for Chime: Had me gripped from the first sentence ... from the fantastic opening line onwards, Billingsley's writing just gets better and better Writing from the Tub An amazing, fascinating heroine and a swoon-worthy romance ... I loved it, I loved it so much I want the entire world to know about it ... I loved this book with the force of a thousand supernovas The Book Smugglers

Praise for The Folk Keeper: 'A minor masterpiece of compression: sharply written and highly engaging for 10 to 16-year-olds' TES 'A most enchanting, original and compulsive fantasy. The reader is fascinated, drawn in from the very beginning ... The language is rich and expressive and the emotional involvement with all of the characters is developed with consummate skill and craftswomanship. Highly recommended' School Librarian Praise for Chime: 'Had me gripped from the first sentence ... from the fantastic opening line onwards, Billingsley's writing just gets better and better' Writing from the Tub 'An amazing, fascinating heroine and a swoon-worthy romance ... I loved it, I loved it so much I want the entire world to know about it ... I loved this book with the force of a thousand supernovas' The Book Smugglers