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Laura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: it is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the Dreamhunters. These are individuals with special gifts: the ability to catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace, the Rainbow Opera. People travel from all around to experience the benefits of the hunters' unique visions.
Now fifteen-year-old Laura and her cousin Rose, daughters of Dreamhunters, are eligible to test themselves at the Place and find out whether they qualify for the passage. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to discover. For within the Place lies a horrific secret kept hidden by corrupt members of the government. And when Laura's father, the man who discovered the Place, disappears, she realizes that this secret has the power to destroy everyone she loves . . .
In the midst of a fascinating landscape, Laura's dreamy childhood is ending and a nightmare beginning. This rich novel, filled with beauty, danger, politics, and intrigue, comes to a powerful crescendo, leaving readers clamoring for Book Two.
Dreamhunter is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
"It is like nothing else I've ever read." -- Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga
About the author
Elizabeth Knox has been a full-time writer since 1997. She has published several novels and autobiographical novellas. Her best-known book is
The Vintner's Luck, which won the Deutz Medal for fiction in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize.
The Vintner's Luck has been published in seven languages and is being made into a film by Niki Caro (
Whale Rider; North Country). Her book,
Daylight, was short-listed for Best Book in the South Pacific & South East Asian Region of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and her first book for young adults,
Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet, was chosen as a White Raven by the International Youth Library, and winner of New Zealand's prestigious Esther Glen Medal. Elizabeth lives in Wellington with her husband, Fergus Barrowman, and their son, Jack.
