OT - Prospero's Children - Book recommendation

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 10641

Just finished this book, and haven't seen it mentioned here on HP4GU yet.
It's a great read -- definitely more adult in tone than HP, with marvelous
descriptive imagery.  It rather reminds me of the "Dark is Rising" series by
Susan Cooper.
Check it out :

Review
PROSPERO'S CHILDREN by Jan Siegel (orig. pub. 1999 in UK, 2000 in USA)

 "Something was lost, long, long ago, before the beginnings of history: few
remain who would recognize it, fewer still who would know the secret of its
use . . ."

 It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen
forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception
would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For
millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of
what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the
sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in
present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel,
life will never be the same again.

 This extraordinary new fantasy adventure--the first volume in a trilogy by
Jan Siegel--is destined to become a classic. Its every sentence crafted with
rare magic and beauty, Prospero's Children unlocks the secrets of ancient
Atlantis and of a young girl's heart, revealing a world of
never-to-be-forgotten wonders and terrors like nothing you have read before.
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