The Secret Green

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It's a year since Nissa Marshall, then 12 years old, was found alive after miraculously surviving a month lost in the vast, dense, isolated bush of Fiordland.

Strange, magical things happened when Nissa was lost in the wilds but she must keep those secrets to herself.

Were the sparks actually real Or had she made it all up in the forest inside her head Because nothing had happened since. Life has just gone on.

But when one of the sparks mysteriously calls her back she discovers something very wrong. Developers are planning to put a road and a tunnel through the pristine wilderness, threatening the sparks that saved Nissa and who have lived there for thousands of years.

She must return and do what she can to save them.

This sequel to Spark Hunter is a tense, exciting adventure set in the real world, with flashes of magic realism.

Author Bio

Sonya is an award-winning novelist, journalist, television reporter, presenter and producer. She has a degree in Broadcasting Communications and has worked across a variety of platforms and programmes including TVNZ's Breakfast, One News, 20/20, Sunday and Q + A programmes.

She also has a Masters in Creative Writing with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. Her first novel, Spark Hunter, has made several bestsellers and best-of lists since its release in October 2021. It won the NZSA Best First Book Award at the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, a Storylines Notable Book Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the Esther Glen Junior Fiction prize.

Sonya also writes essays, reviews and opinion pieces for a variety of publications including North & South, Newsroom, Canvas and The Spin Off, and produces and presents the Bookland Presents: How to Love podcast series.

She is the founder and Chief Executive of the charity Kiwi Christmas Books (www.kiwichristmasbooks.org.nz) and is the co-director of a small film and television post-production company with her husband, colourist Pete Ritchie.