A Winter's Promise

📖 The Scoop

• The first instalment and English-language debut of the bestselling French fantasy series The Mirror Visitor. The novels have earned a huge following in France: book three debuted at #1 and spent 13 weeks on the French bestseller list
• Long ago, following a cataclysm called ‘the Rupture’, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, named the Arks. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power
• Clever, daggy young Ophelia is living a happy, bookish life on an Ark named Anima. Her idyllic life is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn inhabitant of a distant Ark. Ophelia slowly realises that she is a pawn in a dark political plot that will have far-reaching effects for her entire world. What Thorn and his Ark don't know is that Ophelia is gifted—and her hidden gifts give this misfit narrator secret powers
• Dabos has created an unforgettable heroine and a rich and intriguing universe. For young adult or adult readers of Philip Pullman, J.K Rowling, Isobelle Carmody and Cornelia Funke
• Rights have now been sold in 13 countries and the series has sold over a quarter of a million copies internationally

Genre: Young Adult Fiction / Literary (fancy, right?)