Harsu has five droplets of god blood and a treasured cloak to remember his father by. Now his father is gone, he lives with his mother, his only friend an old onager donkey. And something is not right with Harsu's mother. She has started kidnapping children, and sometimes her skin grows a soft down, little sharp ears emerge, and she turns into a horrible stoat. Harsu doesn't know if five godlet drops are enough to help him rescue the kidnapped children and turn his own mother to good. And now that he is twelve, he too might be becoming a were-animal ...

" Harsu and the Werestoat is an original and unusual story with all the best chracteristics of Barbara's writing: brilliant world-building, frequently funny and a morally strong, engaging hero." Julia Marshall, Publisher

About the Author
Barbara Else is one of New Zealand's most successful writers, for adults and children. Her Tales of Fontania series-including The Travelling Restaurant-has been published around the world and her 2018 release Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women is a bestseller. Else is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, and has worked as a university tutor, editor and freelance writer. She lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Reviews

"Else has built a fantastical world, rich in detail and imagination."

-- NZ Booklovers

"This is such a gripping, marvellous book I can't wait for you to discover its magical highways, its fascinations and its gripping secrets."

-- Poetry Box



Book Information
ISBN 9781776572199
Author Barbara Else
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Gecko Press
Publisher Gecko Press