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From twice Carnegie Medal-winning Geraldine McCaughrean comes an extraordinary and timely new novel set in a world paralysed by natural disaster and dangerous politics, for fans of Philip Pullman and Frances Hardinge.

Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia's tyrannical head of state, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this cowardly act, Gloria steps into the Suprema's shoes and is thrust into a corrupt world where she must take decisions that will affect the life and death of thousands of citizens of Afalia, including her own....

©2021 Geraldine McCaughrean (P)2021 W F Howes
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