Advent A Novel

The first novel in an astonishingly imaginative fantasy trilogy about how magic was lost to the world, and how a fifteen-year-old English boy discovers that its return is his inheritance. 1537. A man hurries through city streets in a gathering snowstorm, clutching a box in one hand. He is Johann Faust, the greatest magician of his age. The box he carries contains a mirror safeguarding a portion of his soul and a small ring that containes all the magic in the world. Together, they comprise something unimaginably dangerous. London, the present day. Fifteen-year-old Gavin Stokes is boarding a train to the countryside to live with his aunt. His school and his parents can't cope with him and the things he sees, things they tell him don't really exist. At Pendurra, Gavin finds people who are like him, who see things too. They all make the same strange claim: magic exists, it's leaking back into our world, and it's bringing something terrible with it. Adventbegins in a world recognizably our own and ends an extraordinarily long way from where it startedsomewhere much bigger, stranger, and richer.