Seven oclock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again.
Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh and puritanical Order, she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left hand. For this is no ordinary birthmark it is a runemark, a sign of the old gods.
In fact, Maddy can do things that no-one else can, things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye, an outsider like herself, does she learn what power she really has, and what she will be asked to do with it.
In Runemarks, Joanne Harris creates a world not unlike our own - if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans - and colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery and gritty realism. A disenchanted world, where the gods died long ago. Can Maddy bring them back to life?
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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.