Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's parents go away on a vacation, so they send her off on a trip of her own with her step-brother Sholto and his opinionated girlfriend Susan, who are interviewing the survivors of a strange coal mine disaster and researching local folklore in 1959 Southland, New Zealand. Canny is left to herself to wander in a mysterious and enchanting nearby valley, occupied almost entirely by children who all have the last name Zarene and can perform a special type of magic that
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Oh, this book is a delight. I haven't even finished it yet. I can hardly put it down. I am going to have to search out her other books now and read them too. There are two she has written in the the same world/universe: Dreamhunter and Dreamquake. It has resonances for me of the film Whalerider. The atmosphere she evokes is gorgeous, tasty, reading this is like eating cake or a nice cheese.
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Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
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Elizabeth Knox
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