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"You have to be careful of cracks. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know where you will end up."

Greylands is the haunting and exquisitely rendered story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they struggle to cope with their father's despair in the bleak time after their mother's death. One night Jack enters the greylands – a world where there is no colour, no noise, no laughter – a place that only the wounded can enter.
It is a fable for all ages, from the acclaimed author of the Obernewtyn chronicles and The Gathering.

* Czech version
** eBook version


Greylands was inspired very much by Prague where I now live part of each year. But Greylands is not about Prague or indeed any other place. It is a state of mind. It is about endurance and surviving sorrow; it is about the need for laughter and for beauty; it is about belonging and about oppressions of many kinds, and most of all, it is about having the courage to hope.

Isobelle Carmody

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Reviews / Recommendations "powerful and moving..." ~ Australian Book Review "The telling of a story is all – and Carmody knows how to tell a story." ~ The Australian Review: Greylands by Anastasia Gonis at Kids Book Review
Loss and grief during childhood is always difficult; at times unbearable. The way children cope with the pain associated with loss is the theme of Isobelle Carmody’s Greylands. The book was first published in 1997. In this new, revised edition, there is an excellent and moving Foreword that opens the reader to the contents of the book... Read On...

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Published: Australia: 1997 - Penguin (Puffin) [Out of Print] 2012 - self published [eBook] 2012 - Ford St UK: 1997 - Penguin (Puffin) [Out of Print] Czech: 1999 - One Woman Press [as Serokraj]

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