by Chris Wooding · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722329958
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«O Mistério de Alaizabel Cray» is the fantasy novel by Chris Wooding, published by Editorial Presença in paperback (280 pages, in Portuguese).
In a London besieged by supernatural creatures, the Cradlejacks and other beasts turn the night into a deadly threat. Witch hunters Thaniel Fox and Cathaline Bennett try to contain them, until they meet Alaizabel Cray, a young woman with enigmatic green eyes who harbours a dangerous secret.
This 2003 Portuguese edition translates the original novel The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, published in 2001. Winner of the Silver Award at the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
Recommended for readers of Philip Pullman and fans of young adult fiction with horror and steampunk atmospheres.
Chris Wooding is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.
