Kim Batchelor, Writer

Children's Books

• The Mists of Na Crainn

• Golondrina and the White Butterflies

Adult Novels

• Maryam: An Imagined Life (in progress)

• Shaun Vega mystery series

   

The Mists of Na Crainn

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In the Village Na Crainn, magic is everyday life—from cook-quickly ovens to play-themselves guitars. The headmistresses of the school in Na Crainn strongly discourage their students from learning how plants grow, how clouds form, or how anything works. To discover these things for themselves, Lyric Doherty and her friends Fin and Andrew set off for the Arbor Fair, a secretive place where vendors trade forbidden books and chemistry sets for blinks of the eye and songs sung in four-part harmony. There they meet the “pirate and renegade” Caitlin O’Malley who tells Lyric, “You’re part fairy, aren’t you?” This revelation starts the 12-year-old on a quest to find her mother and to discover why she left Lyric when Lyric was very small.

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