The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the halls of a Long Island hospital at the beginning of the 20th century, where a mad poet watches the oceans and knows the horrors it hides; and there in the far future, as an astronaut faces his destiny on the first spaceship sent from earth to colonize another world. Each of the characters in these mysterious linked stories embarks on a journey of discovery and survival; carried forward through the spiral of time, none will return to the same place.

Marcus Sedgwick, author of Midwinterblood, White Crow, and the Printz Honor-winning Revolver, has experienced a wonderful coincidence. Over the years, the author has experienced several strange events, some of which have made their way into She Is Not Invisible, as well as a lifelong preoccupation with the number 354, which has 'haunted' him. The number 354 can be discovered lurking 'between the lines' of the novel in many ways as a method to eventually release himself from this obsession.