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HarperVoyager
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2014
Copyright © Robin Hobb 2014
Map and illustration copyright © Nicolette Caven 2014
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015
Cover illustration © Jackie Morris; lettering by Stephen Raw.
Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007444175
Ebook Edition © August 2014 ISBN: 9780007444182
Version: 2018-09-21
‘Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers’
The Times
‘Hobb is always readable. But the elegant translucence of her prose is deceptive … That is the ambition of high art. The novelists in any genre are rare who achieve it with Hobb’s combination of accessibility and moral authority’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A little slice of heaven’
Guardian
‘Hobb is superb, spinning wonderful characters and plots from pure imagination’
Conn Iggulden
‘In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons’
George R.R. Martin
‘Robin Hobb is without question among the finest writers of fantasy working today’
SFX
‘A master of “epic” fantasy’
Shortlist
For Soren and Felix. This one’s for the guys
Contents
Chapter Three: The Felling of Fallstar
Chapter Seven: The Presentation
Chapter Eight: The Spider’s Lair
