Review
From the book jacket: Sixteen-year-old
Seeker's older brother is publicly humiliated and - with no explanation - exiled
from the Nomana, a revered order of warrior monks. Seeker refuses to believe
that his beloved older brother is capable of committing a betrayal that would
warrant such severe consequences, so he sets off alone on a journey to rescue
his brother and find out at last what really happened. Along the way he meets two other young people who are on quests of their own,
and in a shocking turn of events, the three are soon caught up in a harrowing
and bloody race to save the Nomana - and themselves - from destruction.
Comment: The storyline is familiar: Boy consigned to boring life seeks
adventure, discovers that (despite the fact that his family never thought him up
to much) he's actually the chosen one who's destined to save his...
Beyond the Book
William Nicholson lives in Sussex in the South of England with his wife,
Virginia, and their three children. He has written two books for adults,
The Society of Others (very good IMHO) and
The Trial of True Love (not so
good), and
The Wind Singer - a trilogy for children that received very
strong reviews and won two prestigious UK Awards (the Smarties Gold Award and
the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2001 - the former being a very popular chocolate
candy similar to M&Ms, the latter being a very popular long-running BBC program
for children).
He has also written many TV dramas, including
Shadowlands (the life of CS
Lewis). His adaptation of
Shadowlands for the stage won the Evening
Standard Best Play of 1990 and went on to...
