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Foxlight Katya Balen

Foxlight By Katya Balen

Foxlight by Katya Balen


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Foxlight Summary

Foxlight: from the winner of the YOTO Carnegie Medal by Katya Balen

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 ...

Foxlight Reviews

Lyrical, with a quality of fairytale - a finely crafted celebration of nature, sisterhood, stories and love * The Times *
Beautifully poetic and steeped in the natural world * Sainsbury's Magazine *
Beautifully written * The Week Junior *
Quietly wild, richly thoughtful * The Guardian *
Some books are set out as verse but never achieve the poetic. Foxlight is set out as prose, but has the depth of poetry. * The Jewish Chronicle *
Quite simply one of the most beautiful books I've ever read * Kiran Millwood Hargrave on October, October *
Katya Balens October, October is a very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status * Times Children's Book of the Week on October, October *
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 on October, October *
I love Katya Balens clear-eyed, poetic writing style, first encountered in The Space Were 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 on The Light in Everything *
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 on The Light in Everything *
Balen writes with sensitivity, highlighting how difficult change can be for a young person while ultimately creating an uplifting story * The Week Magazine on The Light in Everything *

About Katya Balen

Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Katya's debut novel, The Space Were 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 shes 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. @katyabalen

Additional information

GOR013683570
9781526652102
1526652102
Foxlight: from the winner of the YOTO Carnegie Medal by Katya Balen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2024-04-25
288
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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