A twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected turn when a girl finds
herself at the centre of a plot to save a community from the brutal
Corvus rule
On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to
celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the
marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up
she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep
tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when
Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play
in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of
the Corvus.
A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of
friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine
Wild-Palmer.