Book description
In a world where magic is outlawed, Lily runs wild and neglected. Once
rich and powerful magicians, now Lily's family hide away in their
crumbling house, while her older sister, Georgie, is trained secretly in
magic. But when Lily discovers her parents' dark plan to use Georgie in
a terrible plot to restore the country to its magical glory, she knows
she must rescue her sister - and flee... Holly was born and grew up in
south-east London, but spent a lot of time on the Suffolk coast. As a
child, she had two dogs, a cat, and at one point, nine gerbils (an
accident). At about ten, Holly fell in love with stories from Ancient
Greek myths, which led to studying Latin and Greek, and eventually to
reading Classics at university. She worked for five years as a
children's fiction editor, before deciding that writing was more fun,
and easier to do from a sofa. Now living in Reading with her husband,
three sons and one cat, Holly runs a Girl Guide group. The Rose books
stem from a childhood love of historical novels, and the wish that
animals really could talk.
