And the Wildness

<p><em>So the actual reason I was calling you is because-get this-I am not going to Prague this summer at all. Surprise! Thanks Villa. Just ruin my life for me</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Villa Grace is in disgrace. Her expulsion from school has ruined the prospect of a family holiday in imperial Prague where her mother is organising a conference. Two of her three siblings are barely speaking to her as all four face into a 'holiday' sweltering on Cobwell Farm in the back of beyond of drought-stricken Hibernia.</p><p><br></p><p>But the power-hungry St. Maur Ker family has breached the border between mortal and <em>sídhe</em> for their own gain. Cobwell on the threshold of myth is about to become the centre of a battle between older wilder forces and the technomantic ambitions of one of the empire's great aristo-corporate clans.</p><p><br></p><p>Caught up in this conflict the children are forced to face up to the dark underbelly of their parents' corporate environ-ment and to confront their own conflicting ambitions and loyalties.</p><p><br></p><p>This books is set in the same 'Hibernia Altera' universe as Maxwell's <em>Good Red Herring</em> included in the <em>Irish Times</em> Best Books of 2014 for Children and Young Adults.</p><p><br></p><p><em>For readers of all ages</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Gorgeous and hilarious and profound. <em>Siobhán Parkinson</em></p>