
Seriously, she lightens things with a good laugh - ensuring that Runemarks Speech with a Northern bluntness and whenever the plot looks like it's in danger of taking itself to Speechifying and instead has her characters speak in good solid modern-day Part of the North of England a couple of hundred years ago but happily Harris saves us from any ye-oldy-worldy The setting feels like a small village somewhere in a rocky, hilly and bleak Her to be set apart from the others in the village, who believe imagination toīe a sin, with some even mumbling "witch"īehind her back, at least she has been saved from the Cleansing which wouldĭefinitely have resulted if the Order were aware of her Order" rarely visit so while the "ruinmark" on Maddy's hand and her So far away that even the Examiners of "The Maddy Smith lives a quiet life in a sleepy village a long way from the center of Gentlemen and Players (2006) now she breaks new territory with a novelĥ00 years after Ragnarok (the end of the world according to Norse mythology),


Joanne Harris has already proved her versatility with her books An epic of Norse mythology by the author of Chocolat for readers aged 12+
