LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2023 | October 2023 Book of the Month
Award-winning Katya Balen’s dramatic and mesmerising adventures story deftly tells of longing, hope, loving and loss as two sisters search for the story of their identity.
Now living in the Light House as part of a much-loved found family, Fen and Rey know that they were found curled up warm and safe with a family of foxes. Unlike some of the other children they have no talismans or documents from their past, no mother to write to on Sundays. Instead, Fen and Rey imagine…
They imagine themselves a past with a mother who lived out in the wildlands and left them in the care of the foxes. Needing to turn the imagining into reality the two girls set out to search for the truth they need. Weaving real and imaginary experiences together in a gripping adventure with these two remarkable and very different girls at its heart Katya Balen explores family and the powerful ties of love that children need and create.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Foxlight Synopsis
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places.
Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to. Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature. She reads about the birds, feeds the lands and nurtures the world around her.
They are twin sisters. Different and the same. Separate and connected. They will always have each other, even if they don't have a mother and don't know their beginning. But they do want answers. Answers to who their mother is and where she might be. What their story is and how it began. So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey see it as a sign - it's here to lead them to their truth, find their real family and fill the missing piece they have felt since they were born.
But the wildlands are exactly that: wild. They are wicked and cruel and brutal and this journey will be harder and more life changing than either Fen or Rey ever imagined ...
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9781526640444 |
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28th September 2023 |
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Katya Balen |
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Bloomsbury Childrens Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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Hardback |
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272 pages |
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Press Reviews
Katya Balen Press Reviews
Praise for October, October:
'Quite simply one of the most beautiful books I've ever read' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'...a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status' - Times Children's Book of the Week
'It's EXQUISITE. Read it. Wild yourself. Open your heart to it. Written with the pen of a poet and the soul of Mother Earth. Glorious. It's like nothing else I've ever read.' - Liz Hyder, award-winning author of Bearmouth
Praise for The Light in Everything:
'I love Katya Balen's clear-eyed, poetic writing style, first encountered in The Space We're In and October, October. She has a special ability to dig deep into the emotional lives of the children she writes about; she is always privy to their darkest thoughts, always on their side. Original, compulsive, uplifting: this is another triumph for Balen. - The Times Children's Book of the Week
'I loved this book. The deftness with which Katya creates such passionate, funny, broken, brave characters. What an achievement. Katya Balen can break your heart and make you snort with laughter in the same sentence' - Natasha Farrant
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About Katya Balen
Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Katya's debut novel, The Space We’re In, was published in 2019 and was highly commended for the Branford Boase Award. Her second, October, October, won the Yoto Carnegie Medal. Her third novel, The Light in Everything, was published in 2022.
When she’s not writing books, Katya likes to scroll through dog-rescue websites, bake, and attempt to keep all her house plants alive. She lives in London with her partner and their dogs Raffi and Mouse.
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