

Gullstruck Island
Author: Frances Hardinge
Narrator: Claire Corbett
Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2019
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Author: Frances Hardinge
Narrator: Claire Corbett
Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2019
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Frances Hardinge is the winner of the 2015 Costa Book of the Year for The Lie Tree, one of just two young adult novels to win this major UK literary prize. She is the author of several books for young people, including A Skinful of Shadows, A Face Like Glass, Fly By Night, and Verdigris Deep. She lives in England
Clare Corbett has had a successful career on stage, screen, and radio. Her theater credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Pygmalion, and Spoonface Steinberg, and her TV credits include BBC's Spooks, Fastnet, and Final Demand. Winner of the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award, she has appeared in over 250 radio plays, including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis, and Dr. Zhivago. Her other voice work comprises of Aardman Animation's The Planet Sketch and numerous audiobooks, including Vanessa and Her Sister and Shopaholic to the Stars.
I think that as adult reviewers of books for children and teens we have a duty to separate ourselves from our material and give our books an impartial eye, one and all. As a reviewer, I don’t know how wise it is for me to get as excited as a ten-year-old when the newest book from a favorite children......more
While Cuckoo Song remains my favourite Hardinge book, Gullstruck Island is very good. I continue to be amazed by the depth of creativity and fine quality of writing that are trademark elements in all of Hardinge's work. The island setting is richly detailed in geography and culture, and the character......more
Ana’s Take: This probably sounds extremely clichéd, but reading a Frances Hardinge book is like entering a whole new world. Take Gullstruck Island for example: where consuming a certain type of fish allows one a glimpse of the future; where a beetle song is deadly; and where different peoples fight f......more
It's difficult for me to imagine reading a Frances Hardinge novel as a young child. Although her books are marketed as being Middle Grade, I fervently wish I could travel to every library and bookstore and rip off that constricting label. If there is any author whose writing transcends all ages and......more
“Brilliantly conceived, perfectly executed and utterly mesmerizing.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A luminous example of gifted storytelling at its best.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Delightfully inventive…Ripe, rollicking, and endlessly creative.” The Guardian