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"A thrilling fantasy adventure filled with some of the most terrifying legends of the Ancient World."
After the success of her Circus Maximus series, Annelise Gray returns to the Ancient World for another thrilling adventure. Via the portal of an oil painting in her grandmother’s art studio, Phoebe finds herself in the same world as Odysseus. Her challenge there is to defeat the terrifying Morpheia who, served by equally threatening and frightening Klepts, feeds off human memories.
With her grandmother rapidly losing her own memory, this is particularly meaningful to Phoebe, and it seems that only by defeating Morpheia will she find her way home. At her side is a boy, Meander, whose shipbuilder father sailed with Odysseus and is missing, presumed lost. Together they retrace Odysseus’ journey and face many of the same monsters, the Cyclops, Charybdis and Circe included, receiving help from King Aeolus and the four winds that answer to him.
Phoebe’s odyssey is as action-packed as the original, while she has her own monsters to overcome, in the form of grief and guilt. Annelise Gray’s portrayals of the Ancient World are the best you will read, and she brings readers face to face with some of the terrifying monsters of legend. An original, well-written and memorable fantasy adventure.
A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.
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A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.Phoebe dreams of becoming an artist like her grandmother, Cass, a brilliant storyteller who has passed on her love of Greek myths to Phoebe. But Cass is disappearing before Phoebe's eyes, lost to a cruel illness that is destroying her memory.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Adventure Stories, Fantasy / Magical, Science Fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Mythic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam was written by Annelise Gray and published by Zephyr an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam has 229 pages
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