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"Sabriel" by Garth Nix

Sabriel, which probably falls into the category of 'Young Adult Fantasy', is a book I'd wanted to read for ages, having seen quite a few good reviews of it. Finally found it in the library last week, and it doesn't disappoint. In feel, it's a bit like Tanith Lee's young adult stuff (such as the Wolf Tower books), and its world and customs are vividly realised.

Sabriel's father is the Abhorsen, a necromancer charged with banishing the troublesome dead beyond the final gates. Sabriel has grown up in a girls school in a separate country, a country more like our own, with cars and electricity, but now her father is missing presumed dead, and she must take up his sword and the bells of his trade and journey into the Old Kingdom to face an ancient evil threatening the land and the countries beyond.

Cracking book, highly recommended.

posted by Izzy @ 9:24 am