LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
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.
Andrea Reece
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The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam Synopsis
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. When Phoebe ruins Cass's seascape inspired by childhood holidays on the Greek island of Ithaca, she is mysteriously swept away to a fantasy world that resembles her favourite myth of all - The Odyssey.
There Phoebe is caught up in a young boy's mission to find his long-lost father - a shipbuilder to King Odysseus, last seen going off to fight in the Trojan War - and faces an epic quest of her own. To seek the shape-shifting monster whose ravenous and growing power may hold the key to Phoebe fighting her own demons. Only by defeating the monster and facing her fears, will she have any hope of finding her way home and back to Cass.
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9781035911011 |
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11th September 2025 |
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Annelise Gray |
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Zephyr an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
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Paperback |
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240 pages |
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Press Reviews
Annelise Gray Press Reviews
'We all have monsters to face. This book skillfully combines a fast-moving fantasy adventure in the world of the Odyssey with a very real struggle against the monsters of guilt and grief'' - Gillian Cross, author of The Demon Headmaster series
'The story is ultimately one of both hope and acceptance as seen through the eyes of children... Thoughtful, but never heavy-handed, this is an ideal class reader. Highly recommended' - School Reading List
'Truly original' - English 4 – 11 Magazine
'A fantastic mythical, timeslip adventure' - Juno Magazine
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About Annelise Gray
Annelise Gray was born in Bermuda and moved to the UK as a child. She grew up riding horses and dreaming of becoming a writer.
Her series Circus Maximus is partly inspired by her long-held dream of seeing a female jockey win the Grand National, an outcome which exists only in the pages of fiction.
After gaining a PhD in Classics from Cambridge, she worked as a researcher for authors and TV companies. She's previously published a history of the women of the Roman Empire and a crime novel set in the Roman Republic.
Annelise lives with her husband in Dorset where she teaches Latin.
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