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    The Map of Leaves

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    ISBN: 9781913696481
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    AuthorTownsend, Yarrow
    Pub Date05/05/2022
    BindingPaperback
    Pages320
    Publisher: Chicken House Ltd
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    Since Ma died, Orla has lived alone in a woodshed by the river. Her garden provides everything she needs. But when people begin to fall sick, Governor Atlas decrees that the plants are the cause and must be destroyed. Armed only with her mother's book of remedies Orla sets out on a barge-boat to discover the truth and save her garden ...


    Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-won
    and adventure is around the bend of every river ...

    'Townsend has
    crafted an uncannily rich and tactile atmosphere, grounding the
    reader in the setting so successfully that I could almost feel the
    river mist settling in my hair.' SARAH DRIVER


    'Just
    finished this breathless marvel and there's so much to love about
    it. Wild and imaginative storytelling, it introduces us to talking
    oaks, poisonous rock and a central character with a lot to prove.'
    FLEUR HITCHCOCK


    'A striking
    new voice and a thrilling, beautiful, important book, full of characters
    I will never forget.' NATASHA FARRANT



    Orla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her beloved
    garden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orla
    knows she must find a cure.


    Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she steals
    away on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.



    Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonous
    place from which they may never return ...





    The debut novel from an astonishingly talented new writer


    A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turn
    with authentic details of the natural world

    A gorgeous gifty book: a flapped paperback with illustration
    by Marie-Alice Harel