Gem

Author: Alan Garner
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Highly captivating Alan Garner excels at writing about the night and dark waters. This story leaves a profoundly strong impression. —New Statesman Alan Garner's novel is excellent, imaginative, and an outstanding, enduring original work. It is a perfect and innovative book. —Times Literary Supplement
A crystal embedded in the bracelet of the girl Susie is called by her a teardrop. It is beautiful, and in the depths of the crystal, it seems to have a swirling blue flame. But she doesn’t know that it is the magic gemstone, Fire Frost, which seals the magic heart. In a cave called the Magic Heart underground, one hundred and forty knights clad in silver armor sleep, and they will awaken at the end of the world to fight the Dark Lord and save the world. When the demons and monsters of the dark world learn that this gem has fallen into Susie’s hands, they all fix their eyes on her, each wanting to seize it for themselves.
Alan Garner, a British fantasy writer, is the author of this debut novel, which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1970.