Sabriel

Who will guard the living when the dead arise? <strong>Sabriel</strong> is sent as a childacross the Wall to the safety of a school in Ancelstierre. Away from m... » 

Who will guard the living when the dead arise? Sabriel is sent as a childacross the Wall to the safety of a school in Ancelstierre. Away from magicaway from the Dead. After receiving a cryptic message from her father 18yearold Sabriel leaves her ordinary school and returns across the Wall into the OldKingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery her journey takes her to aworld filled with parasitical spirits Mordicants and Shadow Hands for herfather is none other than The Abhorson. His task is to lay the disturbed deadback to rest. This obliges him and now Sabriel who has taken on herfathers title and duties to slip over the border into the icy river ofDeath sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there waiting for anopportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find herfather and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction bythe horrible forces of the evil undead Sabriel endures almost impossiblechallenges whilst discovering her own supernatural abilities and herdestiny. «