The Phoenix and the Carpet

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK IN THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FIVE CHILDREN AND IT 'The tone of her stories spoke to me directly . . . I appreciated not being talked down to' KATE SAUNDERS, GUARDIAN 'I love her books - particularly the Five Children and It sequence' NEIL GAIMAN 'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON ' For the egg was now red-hot, and inside it something was moving. Next moment there was a soft crack