by Zizou Corder · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226143471
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«Lion Boy» is the adventure and fantasy novel by Zizou Corder, published by Albin Michel in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Charlie is a boy who can talk to felines. When his parents, scientists researching a cure for allergies, disappear, he embarks on a circus ship bound for Paris. There he befriends a pride of performing lions and, thanks to his gift, follows the trail of the kidnappers to Venice.
First instalment of the Lionboy trilogy. The action takes place in London, Paris and Venice and combines adventure, fantasy and animals.
For a young and adult audience that enjoys fantasy and stories featuring animals.
Louisa Young is a British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist. By 2023 she had published seven novels under her own name and five with her daughter, Isabel Adomakoh Young, under the pen name Zizou Corder. She has written three non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart, A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott and You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart. Her most recent novel, Twelve Months and a Day, was published in June 2022 in the UK, and in the US in January 2023 (Putnam). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
