Today I Have Mostly Been Reading...

Bookshop Kate has been going on and on about this book (well, five books, as the sequence is the collected books: 'Over Sea, Under Stone', 'The Dark is Rising', 'Greenwitch', 'The Grey King' and 'Silver on the Tree'), until I just gave up, bought it and proceeded to read it during my fag breaks.

I loved it! It's aimed at children again, but the complexities of the narrative and the cameos by so many Celtic and Anglo mythological characters make it a delight for adults too. There were holes the size of Bournemouth - why couldn't Merriman take the dangerous quests off the children? - but they aren't the questions that children would ask and I constantly had to slap myself one for asking them.

I did find myself falling into the story time and time again, and I stayed up until 4am to finish it after promoting it from fag break reading only into gotta finish it! reading.

Recommended for children of all ages.