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The Lie Tree: Illustrated Edition

The Lie Tree: Illustrated Edition

by Chris Riddell (Illustrator), Frances Hardinge (Author), Chris Riddell (Illustrator), Frances Hardinge (Author), Chris Riddell (Illustrator)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $4.23
Synopsis

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree is a dark and powerful novel from universally acclaimed author, Frances Hardinge, and illustrated by Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell

It was not enough. All knowledge- any knowledge - called to Faith, and there was a delicious, poisonous pleasure in stealing it unseen.

Faith has a thirst for science and secrets that the rigid confines of her class cannot supress. And so it is that she discovers her disgraced father's journals, filled with the scribbled notes and theories of a man driven close to madness. Tales of a strange tree which, when told a lie, will uncover a truth: the greater the lie, the greater the truth revealed to the liar. Faith's search for the tree leads her into great danger - for where lies seduce, truths shatter . . .

The Lie Tree: Illustrated Edition is packed full of gorgeous black and white illustrations by triple Kate Greenaway Medal winning-illustrator, Chris Riddell, author of the Goth Girl and Ottoline series.

'Brilliant, dark, thrilling, utterly original' Patrick Ness

'The Lie Tree is a wonder. I can't think of anyone who would not love this story' Matt Haig

'I loved this book so much' Lucy Mangan

'Complex and intelligent: a lustrous, delicious romp.' Philip Womack, The Telegraph

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 496
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 20 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 1509837558
ISBN 13: 9781509837557
Book Overview: A beautiful, illustrated gift edition of this extraordinary book: winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree is a dark and powerful novel from universally acclaimed author, Frances Hardinge, with illustrations by Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell

Media Reviews
A beautiful illustrated gift edition of Frances Hardinge's hugely entertaining and dramatic Victorian thriller... Faith is a feisty heroine whose courage combined with a determination that girls can be brave and resolute leads to the exposure of much dishonesty and many deceptions. Chris Riddell's gothic illustrations are perfectly suited to this spellbinding novel. LoveReadingForKids It has been quite a year for this duo: Hardinge claimed the Costa Book of the Year for The Lie Tree, while Riddell scored his third Kate Greenaway Medal for The Sleeper and the Spindle. This is an illustrated hardback edition of Hardinge's text, rather wonderfully born out of Riddell's margin-doodling, which he shared on Instagram. The combination is an intriguing one: I've had but a glimpse and can't wait to see how Riddell interprets the dark, powerful story. YA Book Prize Blog a gorgeously creepy new edition of the Costa Book Award-winning The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge. Who could be better to provide evocative artwork for this than Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell? It's a real treat of a book - perhaps even more satisfying if you're buying it for yourself and reading on a damp and dark Sunday afternoon from the comfort of the sofa... Down the Rabbit Hole blog Fun and ingenious, with plenty of cliffhangers [and] a healthy dash of feminism. Guardian Review Hardinge is a hugely talented writer of tireless invention and prose. Guardian Hardinge writes with energy and verve. The Times Brilliant, dark, thrilling, utterly original. -- Patrick Ness I loved this book so much. -- Lucy Mangan A sinuously beguiling tale of faith, science and murder. Sunday Times News Review A substantial text that is complex and intelligent: a lustrous, delicious romp about evolution and feminism ... The vivid, beautifully powerful whole plays with genre, language and expectation. -- Philip Womack Daily Telegraph This historical fantasy, written with Hardinge's rare precision and originality of language, illuminates the Victorian age and resonates for ours. -- Nicolette Jones The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Year Throwing evolution, feminism and revenge tragedy together, The Lie Tree is a thrilling, gleamingly involving novel that anyone might enjoy, with gorgeous, lush writing matched by a vividly hooking plot. -- Philip Womack The Literary Review Stylishly imaginative. New Statesman The Lie Tree is a fantastic story. It is an important book, not only because it is a great narrative, with great characterization, but because its central message of possibility for an intelligent girl who is out of touch for the age in which she lives is a very important one and relevant for today. -- James Heneage, Chair of the Costa Judges A new novel by Hardinge is always an event and this latest has her usual precision and originality of language, while telling an absorbing historical tale. Sunday Times
Author Bio
Frances Hardinge won the Branford Boase First Novel Award in 2006 with her debut, Fly By Night. Her subsequent novels, including Cuckoo Song and A Face like Glass are universally critically acclaimed and have been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Lie Tree,winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015 and the Sunday Times Children's Book of the Year 2015 is her seventh novel. Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, Muddle Earth and the Scavenger series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.