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Aurabel

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Description for Aurabel Paperback. Series: Lorali. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 5AP; YFH; YFM. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Forget what you know about mermaids with Laura Dockrill's hilarious, riotous adventure not to be missed. It has been two years since Rory drowned, and Lorali is in Hastings, living the quiet life of a normal teenage girl. But her safe life on land won't last for long. Life in The Whirl has become a hotbed of underwater politics and as the council jostles to oust the king, one Mer in particular has her eye on Lorali as the key to her own rise to power. Meanwhile, Aurabel, a lowly Mer from the wrong side of the trench, is attacked by sea beasts and left for dead - and without a tail. Raging with righteous anger, she rebuilds herself a mechanical tail and reinvents herself as a fearless steampunk Mer seeking revenge. But she never expected the most important job that was about to drop into her lap. Laura Dockrill makes a dramatic return to the sea set in the same world as the sparkling and magnetic mermaid story, Lorali.

Product Details

Publisher
Hot Key Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Lorali
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471404245
SKU
V9781471404245
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill is a performance poet and novelist whose wonderfully inventive and vibrant approach to life is reflected in the rich and vividly imagined worlds she creates. Laura grew up in Brixton and attended the Brit School. Laura has always had a vivacious spark, finding creativity in words - from poetry to novels and scripts to song lyrics. She is author of the Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel Lorali, as well as the Darcy Burdock series (Random House) for younger readers, which was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2014. Other books include Echoes (Harper Collins), a collection of poems and short stories. Laura has appeared on Blue Peter and CBeebies and is a frequent poet performer at festivals including Glastonbury, Hay, Edinburgh, London Literary Festival and Latitude. Children's books are at the heart of her work. She curated The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl exhibition at the Southbank Centre and loves to visit schools and festivals and meet young readers who are as spirited as her. Laura lives in London and is currently working on her new teen novel, a play and a poetry collection. You can follow her on Twitter @LauraDockrill.

Reviews for Aurabel
AURABEL is as magical and lyrical and brilliant and special and original as its author, the lovely Laura Dockrill. I adored it.
Katherine Webber
Twitter
Laura Dockrill's criminally underrated YA books are about mermaids; but mermaids as you've never seen them before. Aurabel is the follow-up to 2015's Lorali and they're both lovely, lyrical, beautifully weird books about a matriarchal community where mermaids are the salvaged bodies of women wronged by society. There's so much magic and fun and brilliant world building layered with sharp commentary about women's bodies and growing up - all written in Dockrill's gorgeous style which is fiercely contemporary and poetic all at the same time.
The Pool
Aurabel is quite unlike anything else being published this year
Culture Fly
Vibrant, savage and funny, AURABEL is a mermaid tale for modern times.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of 2017 Waterstones Children's Prize
I found Dockrill's writing very unique and interesting
The Books Are Everywhere
the story raises some very interesting issues about body image, internet fandom and what it means to be human
INIS Reading Guide

Goodreads reviews for Aurabel


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