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Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A McKillip author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:11th Sep '14

£9.99

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The World Fantasy Award-winning novel.

The Prince of Ombria is dying, and already his sinister great-aunt is plotting to seize power. The Black Pearl is feared throughout the land, and the city folk know her reign will be a terrible one. Only the prince's son can stop her from seizing the throne but he's just a boy - barely worth the trouble of doing away with.

Ombria, it seems, is doomed. And yet, beneath the streets, in a buried world of shadows and ghosts, a mysterious sorceress is weaving new spells, watched over by a girl sculpted entirely from wax ...

There are no better writers than Patricia A. McKillip

A swift, dark dream of a book . . . masterfully turning old fairy tales on their heads - Locus

  • Winner of World Fantasy Award 2003 (UK)

ISBN: 9781473205741

Dimensions: 194mm x 128mm x 26mm

Weight: 273g

304 pages