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Book SynopsisLike Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Sheila Rance excels in this first sweeping magical reality adventure inspired by the Bronze Age Far East, in which Maia undertakes a dangerous quest to find her place as a Sun Catcher and saviour of her people.
Trade Review... it's hard not to be won over by the zest and originality of Sheila Rance's debut novel
Sun Catcher,
set in the Bronze Age Far East...
Sun Catcher is a fine and unusual children's tale. -- Martin Chilton * THE TELEGRAPH *
And so the quest is set in this, although first part of a trilogy, completely self-contained story. Reading the book what came across was a love of nature what with the animals such as the leopard, eagle, lizard and moths that adorn the cover. Plus the animals have names, and the relationships with the humans are close, together with a touch of magic. -- 11/02/13 * BOOKISH VARIETY *
Flame-haired Maia has known she was different from the Cave Dwellers since the day many years before when she and her father Tareth were washed up, half-drowned, on their beach. But now she is thirteen, and her destiny as the Sun Catcher who must save a distant land from failed harvests and starvation is slowly revealed to her. * THE BOOKBAG *
