Fire and Hemlock Paperback by Diana Wynne Jones

Product Details

• Publisher: Firebird (2012-04-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 496 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780142420140
• Item Weight: 443.68 grams
• Dimensions: 20.78 x 13.89 x 3.17 cm

An intricate, romantic fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue surrounding a most unusual love story—with an introduction from Garth Nix.

“Complex . . . subtle . . . compelling reading.”—Booklist

“A haunting, thought-provoking story.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“I love Diana Wynne Jones.”—Robin McKinley

Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In one, her childhood is boringly normal. In the other, she is friends with the unusual Thomas Lynn, a cellist whose complicated life expands to include her, too. As she packs to return to college, the second set of memories blazes up to displace the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Why did she forget? Is someone trying to make her forget? Soon she is the detective of her own history, and the trail leads her back to Tom Lynn, whose life, she now knows, is at supernatural risk.

About the Author

Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books. Diana Wynne Jones passed away in March 2011, after a long illness.

Garth Nix is the author of the Abhorsen Trilogy.