Ebook {Epub PDF} The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken

The Stolen Lake Back to Books. Back to Home. THE STOLEN LAKE. by Joan Aiken ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 12, Dido Twite's back in a larky adventure story that boasts a free and spirited adaptation of Arthurian legend and a generous supply of menace and chills. After Night-birds on Nantucket, before The Cuckoo Tree, Dido falls into New Cumbria (near Brazil) where, as Aiken plots it, the ancient Britons relocated when the Saxons invaded Author: Kirkus Reviews. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back/5.

Now back in print, THE CUCKOO TREE and THE STOLEN LAKE continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken's classic THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, THE STOLEN LAKE is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court. Click to read more about The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. THE STOLEN LAKE. Dido Twite's back in a larky adventure story that boasts a free and spirited adaptation of Arthurian legend and a generous supply of menace and chills. After Night-birds on Nantucket, before The Cuckoo Tree, Dido falls into New Cumbria (near Brazil) where, as Aiken plots it, the ancient Britons relocated when the Saxons invaded.

On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men and fish eat. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, The Stolen Lake is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. Children's literature portal. Novels portal. The Stolen Lake is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in Taking place in an alternate history, the story follows the adventures of Dido Twite in a fictionalized version of South America. The novel is, according to the internal chronology of the novels, the fourth in the Wolves Chronicles, a series of books set during the fictional 19th century reign of King James III.