Shadow Creatures

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Tove was 12 and Liva 9, when the Germans occupied Norway. They remember everything as if it happened yesterday. A middle grade story of bravery, resilience, rivalries and shadow creatures in the night. Mose and her daughter Agna are incomers in the village, treated with suspicion. But young Liva, left out of the secrets her sister Tove and brother Hakken share, idolises Agna and follows her everywhere. Unwittingly, they lead the German soldiers to a perfect island, once a haven for picnics and story-telling under the midnight sun, it is transformed into a grim POW camp. An unlikely place to find buried treasure, but it's there. Friendships are made and broken, family trust is turned upside down and lives change forever as Tove and Liva recall their childhood experiences of living through WW2 in a story that moves from light to darkness to light again.

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A book about climate change that offers hope as well as despair, wrapped in an action-packed adventure. A powerful call to arms. -- Editor's Choice * Bookseller on The Last Whale *
Action-packed, moving and thought-provoking, this book will take your breath away. * BookTrust, Great Book Guide 2023, on The Last Whale *
Moral dilemmas, spiritual guidance and human cruelty underpin this rollicking adventure of unlikely friends. * Daily Mail on Girl. Boy. Sea. *
Vick writes vividly about the privations and terrors of their precarious existence and his attention to practical detail brings their hardships into stark relief. * Books for Keeps 5* on Girl. Boy. Sea. *

Author Bio

Chris Vick is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People. In between writing and teaching, Chris works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity and is a member of Authors4Oceans. Chris is half Norwegian and his latest novel is inspired by his mother's experiences living in Norway during World War II. He lives near Bath with his wife and daughter. Girl. Boy. Sea. which was shortlisted for the 2020 Carnegie Medal and The Last Whale are published by Zephyr. christophervick12.wixsite.com/website Twitter @chrisvickwrites and Instagram: @chrisvick321