Steven Savile is an international sensation, selling over half a million copies of his novels worldwide and writing for cult favorite television shows including _Doctor Who_ , _Torchwood_ , and _Stargate_. Now, he is finally making his US debut with _Glass Town_ , a brilliantly composed novel revolv
The Glass Town Game
β Scribed by Catherynne M. Valente
- Publisher
- Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne BrontΓ« have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something incredible happens: the train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own.
This is their Glass Town, exactly like they envisioned it...almost. They certainly never gave Napoleon a...
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