Watchers at the Shrine

by Jean Ure

Overview

50 years on from Come Lucky April...
April and David have confronted the orthodoxy - they believe girls and boys should be able to grow up together. They determine to send their son away, to spare him the humilation of castration. '
Hal spends several years there, waiting for the ban to be lifted. He befriends the daughters of the family he lives with - but when he challenges his 'father' he is sent from the house, and discovers a new life in the lawless part of the settlement. He realises he needs to help the girls he can to escape and return to Croydon. How can he save them?
Life back in Croydon things are changing, too. People are dying. Beliefs are being challenged. Are things any better than they were 150 years ago? Is there hope for the future?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444919912
Publisher:	Hachette Children's Group
Publication date:	07/03/2014
Series:	Plague Series , #3
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Jean Ure's first book was published when she was sixteen and since then she has written dozens of popular and widely-acclaimed novels for children of all ages. The Plague Trilogy proved to be amongst her most controversial and most ambitious books - involving a tussle with her editor on the boundaries pushed in the middle volume - but she has never shied away from challenging material. In 2006, she was voted by readers of Mizz magazine as one of the three best-known writers for teens.

Started writing books when very young. First book published while at school. Been at it ever since. Have large family of animals, all rescued.

Some favourite books when I was a child and still favourites today: WINNIE THE POOH; LITTLE WOMEN; JUST WILLIAM; CATCHER IN THE RYE; I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.

Favourite music: almost anything by Bach.

Favourite movies: THE BIG LEBOWSKI