Book description
Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House.
The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix's best selling
fantasy series,The Keys to the Kingdom.
Arthur Penhaligon's adventures in the House get ever more perilous as
the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear…
Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but
for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Initial
Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army
still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing
trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the
House and blocking the Front Door.
Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is
that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing and so are hundreds of
other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private
institution run by a 'Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken
somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes.
Amid all this trouble, Arthur's mother is also missing, and he must
weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the
Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize - before Superior
Saturday or the Piper beats him to it. “[Garth Nix is] the coolest
read in the playground.” Amanda Craig Garth Nix was born in 1963 and
grew up in Canberra, Australia. After taking his degree in professional
writing from the University of Canberra, he worked in a bookshop and
then moved to Sydney. There he sank lower into the morass of the
publishing industry, steadily devolving from sales rep through publicist
until in 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational
publisher. After a period travelling in Eastern Europe, the Middle East
and Asia in 1993, he left publishing to work as a marketing
communications consultant . In 1999 he was lured back to the publishing
world to become a part-time literary agent. He now lives in Sydney, a
five-minute walk from Coogee Beach, with his wife, Anna, and lots of
books.
