Published in 2020
308 pages
A. Deborah Baker (the pseudonym of Seanan McGuire) is an American author and filker. In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention. Her novella “Every Heart a Doorway” received the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Novella.
McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She adopted the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror. As Grant, she published the political thriller/zombie series Newsflesh, comprising the books Feed (2010), Deadline (2011), Blackout (2012), and Feedback (2016). Blackout was nominated for a 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Additionally, in 2017, The Wine in Dreams was published as part of the novella collection, Star Wars: Canto Bight, a tie-in to the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and the other three under her own name.
What is this book about?
Writing as A. Deborah Baker, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of talking trees and sarcastic owls, of dangerous mermaids and captivating queens in Over the Woodward Wall, an exceptional tale for readers who are young at heart.
If you trust her you’ll never make it home…
Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework – without complaint, without fuss, without prompt.
Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable.
They live on the same street.
They live in different worlds.
On an unplanned detour from home to school one morning, Avery and Zib find themselves climbing over a stone wall into the Up and Under – an impossible land filled with mystery, adventure and the strangest creatures.
And they must find themselves and each other if they are to also find their way out and back to their own lives.
