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Deeplight

By: Frances Hardinge
Narrated by: Joshua Akehurst
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Publisher's summary

'One of our finest storytellers' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
'Pure magic' M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts

From Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight - an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves . . .

The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they rose up and tore each other apart, killing many hundreds of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.

On the jumbled streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.

Nothing is quite as it seems, and when the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .

©2019 Frances Hardinge (P)2019 Macmillan Digital Audio
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Critic reviews

Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now (Patrick Ness)
In Deeplight, Hardinge's unparalleled, terrifying imagination illuminates an underwater world filled with the potent debris of departed gods, and the desperate ambitions of the humans who seek it. No one else writes quite like her - every new book is something extraordinary to be celebrated. (Imogen Russell Williams)
Electrifyingly good (Amanda Craig)
Frances Hardinge has joined the company of writers whose books I will always seek out and read (Garth Nix)
Costa award-winner Hardinge is on top form. (Sally Morris)
The high priestess of Gothic brings a whole world to meticulous and terrifying life, as two boys stumble upon a secret as frightening as it is wonderful. Deeply, marvellously haunting. (Marianne Levy)
Frances Hardinge is among the most original writers working today and Deeplight (Macmilllan) one of her finest books yet. She's a writer who defies easy categorisation; this will entice older children and beyond. (Fiona Noble)

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Lovely Fantasy

I really loved this book.
It started off strong but waned a little bit in the middle making it a bit hard to get through but the underlying message of the human spirit was really good. The Jelt character is really hard to deal with though. Overall the story is gripping, fun, and well paced.

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Its alright

I had high expectations, the story was dull and did not suit my taste, the relationship between Jelt and Hark was the most disappointing one, the direction that it went and how it ended felt emotionless and lacking.

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