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January 28, 2008/in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary /by Angie Hill
BfK Rating:
BfK 168 January 2008
Reviewer: Andrew Kidd
ISBN: 978-0746077009
Price: £5.99
Publisher: Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noonGuaranteed packagingNo quibbles returns
Genre: Fiction
Age Range: 10-14 Middle/Secondary
Length: 208pp
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Feasting the Wolf

Author: Susan Price

Farm boys Ottar and Ketil join a Viking ship. As blood-brothers, they have sworn to protect each other, but life among the Vikings tests their friendship to the limit. If they cannot stand strong together, their bodies may be left on the battlefield to feast the wolves.

Susan Price, multi-award-winning author of The Sterkarm Handshake (winner of the Guardian Prize) and The Ghost Drum (winner of the Carnegie Medal) is on familiar territory here presenting a harsh picture of Viking life, in this assured historical novel. Feasting the Wolf maintains the theme of brotherhood from her earlier novels Elfgift and Elfking. It is a dramatic story of courage and honour set in the merciless and, literally, cut-throat Viking world. How the boys deal with strains on friendship and with bullying, however, is as relevant to youngsters in the 21st century as it was in the times when ruthless warriors fought ferociously in blood-soaked battles.

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