Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead.
Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow of the brutal Order who suppressed them is a time of excitement. But for Maggie, raised as part of the Order, it is a time of chaos and desolation, as her family and values are wiped out.
Like the two girls, the new world remains divided the old regime has gone but with nothing to take its place, anarchy is beginning to spread
Joanne Harris draws us back into the richly imagined world first introduced in Runemarks -a world not unlike our own, had it been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans. But if its inhabitants, including Maddy and Maggie, cant solve their differences soon, they will destroy their world altogether.
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(Yorkshire, 1964), de madre francesa y padreinglés, se ha sentido siempre parte de dos culturas. Durante susolitaria niñez aprendió a dejar escapar su imaginación a través delos libros y de las historias que inventaba. Tras ser bajista de jazz ycontable, decidió seguir la tradición familiar y dedicarse a laenseñanza. Invierte buena parte de su tiempo libre en escribir yjugar con su pequeña hija Anouchka. Desde que publicóChocolat, se ha convertido en un fenómeno literario internacional.