The Snow-Walker's Son Award-winning author by Catherine Fisher (author) (UK edition)

A truly magical book. A tale of intrigue, banishment and sorcery; of an ice-cold winter and an unseen evil eye. What more could you possibly want? Jessa and Thorkil have been banished to the icy North by the evil witch Gudrun. Here they will be imprisoned with Gudrun’s son Kari, about whom terrible tales are whispered. He is rumoured to be half-man and half-beast; a figure of utmost dread. After an endless journey, Thorkil and Jessa arrive and finally meet Kari. To their amazement, he is a slight, winsome young man – not the creature of horror they feared. But Kari shares his mother’s dreadful power. Will he use it wisely?