‘A true dream is when the events
I see in my sleep have, or will happen. It’s a talent that runs in my
family. I
was thirteen when I had my first true dream.’
Will’s Aunt says the Kingdom of
the Rose is the most fortunate of lands. But Will hates the place – his uncle
and aunt are horrible, and he misses his parents. Oh, how he misses them.
Dana wishes she wasn’t a
princess. She’s always being told how to behave, what to wear. There’s a
strangeness in the castle – why will no one talk about the Guardian, or the
necklace that protects the land? And why does her father look at her with such
sorrow? The collier’s cart seems the perfect escape. Only she didn’t realize
she’d become so dirty, or so lost. Fortunately this boy, Will, has a sense of
direction. And next to the forbidding stranger, N’tombe, he seems reassuringly
normal.
Welcome to A Necklace of Souls:
a story of love and loss, of shattered lives and desperate hopes. In the
Kingdom of the Rose, bravery is not always measured by strength and magic is
real, if only one has the courage to dream.
Shortlisted for the Sir Julius
Vogel Award, A Necklace of Souls was awarded the Tessa Duder Award for Young
Adult Fiction, Best First Book at the New Zealand Post Children and Young Adult
Book Awards and is a Storylines Notable Book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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My name is Rachel Stedman. I’m a physiotherapist (physical therapist) by background, but now I work as a freelance contractor. I live in the wild and windy place of Dunedin, New Zealand, with my husband and two kids. I write mostly for children and young adults. In 2012 I won the Tessa Duder Award for an unpublished YA work and my first novel, A Necklace of Souls, was published by HarperCollins in 2013 (available in the United Kingdom and on Book Depository from June 2015). This year, A Necklace of Souls was awarded Best First Book at the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards and won a Notable Book Award from Storylines. Inner Fire is my second novel.
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