A Gathering Light

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 389. Blue cloth boards, titled in silver to spine; illustrated end papers. Published as A Northern Light in the U.S. by Harcourt, in 2003.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's second novel. Winner of the 2003 Carnegie Medal for "an outstanding book for children and young people" as well as of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature in the same year. Borders Original Voices Young Adult prize-winner.

A coming-of-age drama set at a popular holiday resort at turn-of-the-century America and based on the real-life murder case of Grace Brown – the basis also for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925). Readership level: 12+. "[A] remarkable debut, a book that sweeps across the genre boundaries of murder, mystery, romance, and historical fiction – resulting in an original novel that is both gripping and touching." –Scott Turow