The Road of Bones

This ambitious book is a rare achievement … Subtle, stimulating and morally complex but it is also evocative and convincing: we feel keenly the chill of both soulless hegemony and its frozen wastes * The Sunday Times *
It carries lessons to be re-assimilated by young readers - how society can be deceived, how people can become powerless and how tyranny can breed tyranny * The Bookseller *
A hybrid of political concern and an excruciatingly exciting adventure-thriller, Anne Fine’s The Road of Bones could easily be described as a Magnum Opus … The Road of Bones might be cold in setting but at heart glows with an intensity of warmth, passion, fervour and belief, it is the novel that all should resolve to read – Jake Hope * Achuka *
The Road of Bones is a startling achievement, not least for its refusal to wrap it all up into a neat and tidy happy ending. It will leave its young readers with a great deal to think about. Most children will know of the Holocaust, but few will realise how many perished during Stalin’s purges. This alone is a story worth telling. Cleverly though, The Road of Bones also makes its warnings contemporary, timeless even * thebookbag.co.uk *
Beneath its cold white cover a story of magnitude unfolds – Diane Samuels * Guardian *

Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children’s book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children’s Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children’s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne lives in the North-East. She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children’s literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children’s Novel award twice … There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work’ Scotsman

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