Author(s): Philip Pullman

Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds

Sixteen-year-old Ginny's life is secure. She's turning out to be a brilliant artist like her mother, who died when she was a baby and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny's world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. And Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she's never known ...