by Zizou Corder · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467210200
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«Lionboy» is the young adult novel by Zizou Corder, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (316 pages, in Spanish).
Charlie Ashanti is a boy who can speak the language of cats. When his parents, scientists who have discovered a cure for asthma, are kidnapped, Charlie travels from a futuristic London to Paris. On a circus ship he befriends the lions, who become his allies against those who pursue him.
First instalment of the Lionboy trilogy, translated by Roberto Falcó and illustrated by Fred van Deelen.
For young readers seeking a fantasy adventure with animals as travelling companions.
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.
