'An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand'
- Jacqueline Wilson
'Read everything she writes'
- Daily Mail
'Likely to be the best children's book you'll read this year'
- The Times Children's Book of the Week
'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most so-called "serious" novels are forgotten'
- Observer
'A new Katherine Rundell book is always an event, but this is another triumph and then some. A wickedly exciting heist with heart, I can but marvel at this new delight from one of my favourite storytellers ever'
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars