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Informationen zum Autor David Whitley was born in Chester in 1984. At the age of seventeen he was shortlisted for the Kathleen Fidler Award for a children's novel and at twenty he won the Cheshire Prize for Literature for a children's short story. TV quiz fans will have spotted David on BBC2's University Challenge ! when he was a member of Oxford's Corpus Christi team who became Series Champions in 2005. In 2009 he published his debut! The Midnight Charter ! which sold in 18 countries and 12 languages around the world. The Children of the Lost is his second book. Klappentext Mark and Lily have been banished from Agora! the ancient city-state where everything is for sale - memories! emotions - even children. Lost and alone they discover Giseth! a seemingly perfect land where everyone is equal! possessions are unknown! and Lily believes they will find the secret of their entwined destiny. But paradise comes at a price. Zusammenfassung Mark and Lily have been banished from Agora! the ancient city-state where everything is for sale - memories! emotions - even children. Lost and alone they discover Giseth! a seemingly perfect land where everyone is equal! possessions are unknown! and Lily believes they will find the secret of their entwined destiny. But paradise comes at a price.
