Notes
A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's award-winning novel for children aged 9+.For as long as Seth can remember hes been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens, desperate to explore the world outside. By day hes frozen in a stone skin as a statue of a shepherd boy. As soon as the sun sets hes free to roam the park, ravenously hungry. Hes a troll, and the food he seeks is human memories. But somehow hes yearning for something more than an endless cycle of hunting and loneliness.Then he meets Stella, who has just moved to live with her grandfather in a house neighbouring the park. Her mind is sharp and quick and theres something so different about her shes the only human Seth has met whose memories make his insides burn. He doesnt want to feed off her. He simply wants to talk to her. Maybe she can help him find another way to live?Engrossing, spine-chilling and surprising, this is a novel that grabs the reader and holds them spellbound. What terrible memory is Stella trying to escape? What are the fragments of memory that Seth is trying to put together? And is there any possibility that Seth could escape the lonely garden and start truly living?
