With a fanfare, we can announce that
Marie Marshall‘s new novel aimed at older children and teenagers,
The Everywhen Angels,
is now published. It tells a story of kids in a comprehensive school on
the outskirts of London, who find themselves with strange powers.
Perhaps they are the first skirmishers in the great battle of Armageddon
– but how would they know? Despite their visions and their adventures,
they have to deal with the normal stuff of teenage life – homework,
parents, bullying, dating, not talking to strangers, bereavement and so
on. But do they really know what is going on? Angela, the poet with the
questioning mind believes they don’t; hers is the first pair of eyes
through which we see the story. Charlie, her boyfriend, is a young man
with a vision – but does he really appreciate the trouble he’s in? He
tells his story backwards, from the last scene to the first and makes
the reader question what is good and what is evil. Ashe is the youngest
and smallest of the group – diagnosed with Asperger’s, he is in fact the
key to everything. But that isn’t to say his path is easy. The novel is
not just a fantasy adventure. It’s action breaks the rules of time,
encompassing murder, a bomb outrage, a flood which engulfs London, and
the Battle of Waterloo; it’s themes include guilt, courage, cowardice,
and delusion. The author says of it: “I believe children can handle
difficult philosophical questions. They can handle stories told in a
strange way. Young readers are much more intelligent than adults give
them credit for.”
The Everywhen Angels is
available direct from P’kaboo publishers in eBook form, with possibly more formats becoming available in due course.
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Excerpt from the Bookseeker Blog)
The Everywhen Angels is available at the P'kaboo shop in epub and pdf ebook format, and will also be available on Amazon shortly, in Kindle and paperback.
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