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**NEVERMOOR: WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER FICTION CATEGORY**Step boldly and return to the fantastically Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor – perfect for all adventurous young readers. In the magical city of Nevermoor, long-buried secrets are coming to light, and Morrigan Crow’s life is about to turn upside down. When Morrigan is invited into Nevermoor’s wealthy Silver District, she discovers a world of extravagance and a family mystery she’s eager to unravel.
She could never imagine where it will lead: a white wedding, a golden dragon and a red pool of blood. Embroiled in suspicion and danger, Morrigan leaps head first into a murder investigation, while also grappling with her ever-growing Wundersmith powers. And although her friends are there to help, she fears that could change if they learn she’s keeping a terrible secret of her own.
As shadowy forces awaken in Nevermoor, can Morrigan find a killer and solve the mystery in her own past … before the clock strikes midnight?Jessica Townsend transports readers to an extraordinary world with spellbinding magic in this fourth book in the internationally bestselling and award-winning Nevermoor series. ? Praise for Nevermoor ?:’A full-speed joy of a book; funny, quick-footed, and wildly, magically inventive’ – Katherine Rundell’Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical …
quite simply one of the best children’s books I’ve read in years’ – Robin Stevens’An extraordinary story full of magics great and small’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave’Endlessly inventive, with a fresh delight on every page. Nevermoor rewrites the genre of the Chosen Child novel. This is a special book’ – David Solomons’A wonderful, warm-hearted magical adventure’ – Sunday Express’Funny and delightful’ – The Sunday Times
