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Visitors who've adopted Dido Twite’s escapades in BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA and NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET may welcome her return in her wildest adventure yet. Now in THE CUCKOO SHRUB, print and THE STOLEN River proceed the Wolves Stories, the inventive and exciting sequence that turned from Joan Aiken’s vintage THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. A stunning bit of remarkable, collective journey, THE STOLEN River is saturated in fantastical particulars: an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, wizards who're additionally courtroom dressmakers, spinning palaces, and an infernal nation having a visible insufficient female kids. On her behalf long ago to London aboard the man -of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite discovers himself and the team summoned to the assistance of the tyrannical king of New Cumbria.