I didn't know anything about it but I was intrigued by the title and the blurb on the back sounded reasonably interesting so I picked it up. I happened to see this book in passing in the library.
Divided City was shortlisted for ten book awards, winning two outright. The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. Remembrance, her top selling YA novel of youth in WW1, has now been reissued to include Book Notes. Her books are hugely popular with young people, librarians and teachers. THERESA BRESLIN is the Carnegie Medal winning author of over thirty books for children & young adults whose work has appeared on stage, radio and TV. And as the Angel of Death approaches, Nostradamus entrusts to her safekeeping some very special parchments - parchments that the rulers of France would do anything to see. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, pays more heed - she believes that Nostradamus can truly see the future.īut the great soothsayer's prophecies are not only for those who rule he also has a message for Melisande, the minstrel's daughter, who he believes is linked with him by Fate. When Nostradamus proclaims to the French court his prophecy of a great massacre, the young King Charles only laughs.
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