| Isabel Burt writes novels of fantasy and fi ction for young readers and up. She suggests about eleven years and up, but has caught all ages sneaking peeks and enjoying her novels! Toxics a fantasy novel set in the Old World, is currently available to buy and its sequel, Oceans, will join it in the shops and online stores this coming winter of 2014! Fourteen year old Felicity Penfold is swept unwillingly into a mystical world where plants and beasts are equal, and all is heard. There she meets an Orion boy, Reuben, whom she must help in order to return home. His quest? To save his beloved Old World from the threat of the Toxics - led by Arrass, their venomous leader. Felicity is slowly drawn into this primitive, powerful Old World, and as the quest becomes a race to the Sacred Caves, she begins to understand her strength, helped by the creatures and plants who become her friends. With Reuben enticing her further into the folds of the Old World – his story becomes her story. But did she arrive in time? visits to the capital with its fi ne museum and library. Trawled memories of endless sea, and sky and wave; forests of pine and white lizards’ rock. Truth layered upon imagination - a tower of dreams with substantiation. It is set in The Old World - a fantasy world very similar to Earth, but without the buildings! Each part of the world has different climates, just like Earth. It represents, in a way, a parallel Earth, but one that was never developed by man. However, it has many inhabitants. There are beasts and there are plants. The plants are conscious, communicating life. Each beast has a plant with which it shares a Isabel Burt fi rst had the idea for Toxics , following a crack of a leg on marble and two weeks staring out at a blustery coastline. The potent mixture of complete immobility, and restless waves spiralled into a story of a young, restless girl, discovering a vast, dusty staircase in an old school. From nowhere came the symbols, and the creatures of a world not yet entirely imagined, but lurking in the depths of Isabel’s subconscious. There quickly followed old school geography books, stunning tomes on beautiful wildlife, Victorian painters of fl ora and fauna, historical documents, special link, and vice versa. These are called enharmonic relationships. Enharmonics are extremely important to each other, although they may only meet once in their lifetimes. When you read Toxics, you will see how Reuben, the quest leader, meets his enharmonic, Orchadea. She is a Fragrant, and he is an Orion. Available in paperback and as an ebook, from Amazon, Kobo, on order from all good bookshops, or directly from the publisher. Blogs at Isabel Burt Author - Novels of fantasy and fl ight from reality for 11 years and up! www.isabelburt.com |
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