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Once Upon a Fever by Angharad Walker
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Once Upon a Fever

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Narrator Lucy Strange

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Length 6 hours 57 minutes
Language English
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Ash House, in a society where emotions themselves are thought to be the cause of the illness that has taken over the world, sisters Ani and Payton must unravel a dark truth in this story that explores the depth of our own strength in how we observe and deal with our emotions.

Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in King Jude's Hospital.

Payton wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital walls.

When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unraveling...

Angharad Walker grew up on various military bases in the UK, Germany and Cyprus, where stories were often being told about far-flung places, past conflicts, and friends and family. She studied English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, which included a year at the sunny University of California Irvine. Her fiction has been published in Structo and A Million Ways, and her poetry has made it into Agenda broadsheets and Ink Sweat & Tears. She currently lives in London, and when she’s not writing, she works as a communications consultant for charities and not-for-profits.
Lucy Strange worked as an actor, singer, and storyteller before becoming a secondary school English teacher. She lives in Kent, England. The Secret of Nightingale Wood is her first novel.

Angharad Walker grew up on various military bases in the UK, Germany and Cyprus, where stories were often being told about far-flung places, past conflicts, and friends and family. She studied English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, which included a year at the sunny University of California Irvine. Her fiction has been published in Structo and A Million Ways, and her poetry has made it into Agenda broadsheets and Ink Sweat & Tears. She currently lives in London, and when she’s not writing, she works as a communications consultant for charities and not-for-profits.
Lucy Strange worked as an actor, singer, and storyteller before becoming a secondary school English teacher. She lives in Kent, England. The Secret of Nightingale Wood is her first novel.

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Reviews

Praise for The Ash House:

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

"The book has an allegorical chill that settles slowly, like damp seeping in... leaving readers with a feeling of ambiguous unease that may stir for a long time in the back of their minds like the aftereffects of a nightmare." -- The Wall Street Journal

* "An impressive first novel that slowly unfolds its brilliant twists and deceptions." -- The Bulletin of the Center For Children's Books, starred review

"An intersection of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Lord of the Flies." -- Booklist

"An unexpected-and pleasing-combination of propitious and disquieting."-- Kirkus Reviews

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