A Winter's Promise

#1 Mirror Visitor Quartet

Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle

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Text Publishing Company
01 October 2018

General fiction (Children's&YA); Fantasy & magical realism (Children's&YA); Epic Fantasy; Magic; Parallel Worlds; Young Adult Fantasy

Series: Mirror Visitor Quartet

Long ago, following a cataclysm called 'The Rupture?, the world was shattered into floating celestial islands, known now as Arks. Ophelia lives on Anima, an Ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, Ophelia hides two powers - the ability to read the past of objects and their human owners, and the ability to travel through mirrors. When she is promised in marriage to Thorn, the young girl must leave her family and follow her fiance to Citaceleste, the floating capital of a distant Ark. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity?

With a feisty, unforgettable heroine, a rich universe, romance and thrilling intrigue, A Winter's Promise will appeal equally to readers of Cornelia Funke, Scott Westerfeld and Margaret Rogerson. Discover the first instalment in a grand saga, and a talented new fantasy author with seemingly boundless powers of invention.

By: Christelle Dabos
Translated by: Hildegarde Serle
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 611g
ISBN: 9781925603828
ISBN 10: 1925603822
Series: Mirror Visitor Quartet
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Recommended Age: From 13 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christelle Dabos was born on the C te d'Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and games. Her love of fantasy began with the Harry Potter series and she is part of a new generation of young fantasy writers.Her debut series, The Mirror Visitor, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-Telerama First Novel Competition, as well as the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and is an international success. She now lives in Belgium.

Reviews for A Winter's Promise (#1 Mirror Visitor Quartet)

`With surgical precision, Christelle Dabos has created a hybrid world between fantasy and the Belle Epoque.' * MadmoiZelle * `Christelle Dabos impresses in this first novel with the power of her imagination. The architect of a bewitching and complex world, she sustains it with a subtle sense of wonder and elegant, flowing language. From metaphor to metaphor, this addictive and charming novel is also a great coming-of-age story.' * Telerama * 'A fantastic epic, definitely, but also a coming-of-age novel, this first volume makes a strong impression. A novelist is born.' * Le Firago * `As mesmerising as a waking dream, A Winter's Promise is certain to ensnare you in its unique, dizzyingly magical world of treachery, illusion, and intrigue.' * Margaret Rogerson, author of An Enchantment of Ravens * `The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter.' * Elle *

Short-listed for Older Fiction, Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019 (UK)
Short-listed for Older Fiction, Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019 (United States)
Winner of Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, Youth 2016 (France)
Winner of Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Youth 2016 (France)
Winner of Winner, International Success, French Publishing Awards 2020 (France)