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A whisper away from magic

What could be more exciting than discovering new worlds and realities which are only a whisper away from our own? Three authors discuss their very different world-jumping books.

The timeslip: Sophie Kirtley: The Wild Way Home

The Wild Way Home tells the story of two very different children: Charlie, who is from our time, and Harby, a boy from the Stone Age. It’s a story of friendship, courage and adventure as Charlie and Harby journey together through the wild green Stone Age forest in search of Harby’s missing baby sister.

‘I always knew that I wanted to write a story about a friendship between an ordinary child from now and a child from the Stone Age… so in order for this unlikely pair to meet there just had to be a timeslip of some sort. However, I didn’t want the mechanics of the timeslip to over-ride the importance of the friendship.

‘In e the timeslip mechanism

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