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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781838855819
RRP: £7.99
PAGES: 240
PUBLICATION DATE:
February 8, 2024
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The Past Master
Patience Agbabi
It’s New Year’s Eve and there’s trouble on the timeline. Elle is sent on an urgent trip to the 31st of December 1999, the eve of the new millennium, where Millennia’s on the rampage. She aims to reinvent herself as a malevolent millennial by taking on Time itself.Can Millennia change the past to destroy the future? It can’t be left to chance. It’s up to Elle and The Infinites to save the world. And with the very nature of time at stake, they’ll have unexpected help from friends in high places.It’s the final countdown. And it starts now . . .
Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, won a Wales Book of the Year Award. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.@PatienceAgbabi
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