Book description
JJ Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he
made to Tir na n'Og, the land of eternal youth, when he was fifteen
years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also
turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny.
She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes, and spends
entire days roaming the mountainside.
It's up there that she meets the ghost. He is guarding a pile of
rocks known as the beacon, and when some archaeologists arrive to
excavate it, they run into the strangest kind of obstruction.
But it is not people the ghost fears, and when the real enemy
finally reveals itself, the future of the entire human race is
threatened. Only Aengus Og and his fairy kin can help now.
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for
young people today for she is a born storyteller, highly original and
thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA
and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she
moved to Kinvara in County Galway and it was there that she discovered
her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an accomplished player
and also has a great interest in restoring instruments.
Kate is a multi-award winning author and the only author to win the
Children's Books Ireland Bisto Book of the Year award four times.
