Ferren and the Angel

Overview

An angel falls from the sky and crashes to the ground!Miriael, the Fourteenth Angel of Observance, has been shot down in the thousand-year war between Heaven and Earth. Damaged and helpless, she prays for extinction.The young tribesman Ferren finds her lying in the grass. She ought to be an enemy, since his people are on the side of the Earth. But seeing her there, unable to fly, his curiosity outweighs every rule and every warning.Ferren knows almost nothing about the terrifying world he's grown up in. Now he's going to learn the truth about the war, the Humen army camp and what military service really means. His unique friendship with Miriael is about to change the course of history.Richard Harland, author of the Worldshaker books, creates a whole new world of angels and apocalypse!

Reviews

“Ferren and the Angel is that rare thing, a profoundly original fantasy that is at the same time, funny, tender and wise. A lovely gem of a book.” – Isobelle Carmody, New York Times Best Selling author

“Captivating, dazzlingly original fantasy!” – Ian Irvine, International Best Selling author

“Harland is a wonderful writer…he will take you to some pretty weird and wild places.” – Jack Dann, author of The Memory Cathedral and Shadows in the Stone

Author Biography

Richard Harland was born in Yorkshire, England, then migrated to Australia at the age of twenty-one. Soon after he finished his cult novel, The Vicar of Morbing Vyle, and resigned a senior lectureship to follow his original dream. Since then, he’s produced seventeen books of fantasy, SF and horror/supernatural, ranging from Children’s to Young Adult to Adult. Best known internationally for Worldshaker and its sequels, he has won many awards in France and Australia. He lives with partner Aileen near Wollongong, south of Sydney, bet­ween golden beaches and a green escarpment.