Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep ego In the tradition of Paul

In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee

takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu'man

they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history

The biographical text informs readers of her early career

and she soon realises that one wrong move could lead to her death

Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep ego In the tradition of PaulPhilip Reeve It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip through the cracks. Sometimes then, so the stories went, enchanted islands would appear in the empty ocean to the west of Wildsea. When Utterly Dark was a baby, she was washed up on the shores of the Autumn Isles and taken in by the Watcher of Wildsea. But everything changes when her guardian suddenly