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Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, and Steve McCarthy, author and illustrator of the award-winning The Wilderness, join forces to turn a familiar myth of Irish folklore into a truly powerful, unforgettable and universal story of love, perseverance and friendship against all odds.Banshees are supernatural Irish harbingers of doom, but ...
where do they come from? The answer: they grow in pods on the prickly gorse bush. The sole job of a baby banshee, a "bansheenie" as they are called, is to bond with a human. Once bonded, they know everything about that person. Most importantly ...
when they will die. Our bansheenie, named Beanie, is no ordinary herald of death. When she sees
her person, a little girl called Rose, she decides to change her own - and Rose's - fate, and instead of delivering bad news, Beanie wants to protect Rose and her family. When her banshee's howl of doom won't work, she must draw power and strength from the ancient secrets and hidden networks of the natural world around her. She must create a brand new sound, a new way of being in the world that will change ... everything.
About the author
Eoin (pronounced "Owen") Colfer is the
New York Times bestselling author of the children's fantasy series Artemis Fowl. His other notable works include
Half Moon Investigations,
Airman and
The Supernaturalist and he has sold over twenty million books worldwide. He was the Irish Children's Laureate, the winner of the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and won the Irish Children's Book of the Year Award for his story
Imaginary Fred, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. He lives in Wexford, Ireland. You can visit him online at www.eoincolfer.com.
