The spiral dance.
The spinning top in her brother's hands.
The waterwheel.
The rope at her neck.

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of this mesmerizing novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a mad poet watches the ocean and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place.

Condition: Pre-loved book. Moderate yellowing of pages; dot on page grain. Otherwise in good condition.

Format: Hardcover
Year published: 2014
Pages: 359
Sub-genre: Historical fiction; fantasy; sci-fi; short stories.
Imprint: Orion Children's Books