Morrigan Crow, Nevermoor's feisty heroine, is a cursed child born to die on her 12th birthday, but rescued from her grim fate by a stranger, the dashing Captain Jupiter North.
Townsend wrote the book over 10 years, starting it the year she left high school, and had begun selling souvenir T-shirts and squeezy crocodiles at Australia Zoo, graduating to co-editor of the zoo's children's wildlife magazine. Nevermoor is the first in a magical series for children aged between eight and 12. My agent will even now email me good news and I don't know how to respond to it, because everything is way beyond what I could have imagined." "In all honesty I hit shock very early on and I've kind of stayed there ever since. Credit: Frankfurter Buchmesse/Alexander Heimann No fewer than eight major publishing houses were vying for rights to Townsend's first Nevermoor book at last year's Frankfurt Book Fair, pictured.
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