A magical, spine-tingling novel about a girl who wants to escape her memories and a troll who is desperately trying to remember his, from the award-winning author of Conrad Cooper's Last Stand and The Impossible Boy
Leonie Agnew (Author)
Leonie Agnew is a New Zealand writer to watch - with each novel she
explores intriguing new territory, and surprises her readers'
expectations. Formerly a copywriter for ad agencies and currently a
primary school teacher, Leonie's first novel, Super Finn
(Scholastic, 2011) won the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon award and went
on to be the 2012 Junior Fiction award and Best First Book Award at
the NZPBACYA. In 2013 she was the University of Otago College of
Education/Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence. Her
second novel, Conrad Cooper's Last Stand, was published by Puffin
in 2014 and won a Storylines Notable Book Award and the LIANZA
Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction. The Impossible Boy followed
in 2016, receiving a 2017 Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award
and the UK David Fickling Master of the Inkpot Award for an
unpublished manuscript. Leonie lives and works in Auckland, New
Zealand.
Kieran Rynhart (Illustrator)
Kieran Rynhart is a freelance illustrator who in 2010 was selected
as one of Luerzers Archive Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide. He
creates his beautiful, distinctive and evocative images using a
mixture of traditional and digital techniques, and works on a wide
range of commissions from children's picture books to commercial
graphics and music videos. He is the illustrator of The New Zealand
Art Activity Book by Helen Lloyd (Te Papa, 2013), If I Was a Banana
by Alexandra Tylee (Gecko, 2016) and Seagull, Seagull by James K
Baxter (Gecko, 2020). He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
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