'Sensational storytelling' - AF Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief.
The gripping new magical adventure from Branford Boase winner Struan Murray.
Domino has lived her whole life believing that just one drop of magic could kill her.
Held in a floating laboratory by scheming Science Barons, she has never known a single day of freedom.
When Domino discovers that everything she's been told by the Barons is a lie, she escapes to Abzalaymon, a wondrous city filled with scientific marvels, hulking thunder lizards and hidden magic.
But the Barons are soon on Domino's trail. Because a war is brewing between science and magic. A war that could destroy the world. And Domino might just be the key to saving everyone . . .
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Struan Murray is Scottish and grew up in Edinburgh, the youngest of a large, rowdy family of redheads. His first publication was a drawing in Pingu Magazine, aged seven. Orphans of the Tide is his second. When he's not writing, Struan is a lecturer at the University of Oxford.
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