Rift

Rift

by Beverley Birch (Author)

Synopsis

An edge-of-your-seat mystery-thriller from Beverley Birch. In a vast African landscape four teenagers and a journalist vanish without a trace from a camp below a steep rock ridge, 'Chomlaya'. As Ella, the sister of one of the missing girls, helps Inspector Murothi piece together what happened, she realises there are terrifying possibilities for her sister and the four others. There has been sinister behaviour and bullying in the camp where the missing were staying. Has there been foul play? Then one of the missing turns up - but with no memory of what has happened...As the search helicopters continue their constant hum over the rock ridge, Ella and the Inspector begin to wonder whether they are already too late...Fans of Julia Golding's Girl on the Run series will love Rift. 'Rift is that delightful thing, a book which holds you from the first page' - Marcus Sedgwick, Guardian.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Egmont
Published: 02 Oct 2006

ISBN 10: 1405215895
ISBN 13: 9781405215893
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
A tightly written, highly entertaining novel. Vibrant and haunting, Rift will hold readers' attention well after they've finished reading the last page. --School Librarian
Author Bio
Beverley Birch is the author of more than forty books, from picture books and novels to science biographies and retellings of Shakespeare. All her books have received critical acclaim. She has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is in the top ten per cent of all authors borrowed in UK libraries. Beverley grew up in Kenya, and came to England for the first time to study for A' levels. She travelled widely in Africa, America and Europe before graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Economics and Sociology. After university she became an editor. In 1981 she began writing full-time, and only returned to combining writing and editing six years ago. She is married to photographer Nick Birch, with whom she has published a number of books, and has two daughters at university. She now works part time commissioning children's fiction for Hodder, and the rest of the time on her own writing.