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Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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| Biography | | Cecilia Dart-Thornton was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She became a schoolteacher before working as an editor, bookseller, illustrator and book designer. She started and ran her own business, but became a full-time writer in 2000 after her work was ‘discovered’ on the Internet and published by Time Warner (New York). A keen supporter of animal rights and wilderness conservation, she has also branched out into such diverse industries as clay sculpting, performing in folk music bands, and digital media. Her books are published around the world and have been translated into several languages. They have appeared on the Australian bestseller lists and received acclaim from the Washington Post, The Times, Amazon.com, Locus Magazine, Good Reading, Kirkus Reviews, the Herald Sun, The Library Journal, The Sunday Age, The Mercury, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and The Weekend Australian. She currently lives in Melbourne. | | | | | | The Bitterbynde Series | | |  | | The Ill-Made Mute | | | | | | Crowthistle Chronicles | | | The Iron Tree | (2 reviews)  | | The Well of Tears |  | | Weatherwitch | | | Fallowblade |  | | | | | Other | | | The Battle of Evernight | | | The Ill-Made Mute | | | The Lady of the Sorrows | | | | | Official sffworld.com reviews |
The story here starts pretty much where Book 2 left us, with the The Ill-Made Mute becoming a lady of social esteem and prestige, a person with a mission and whose role in Book 2 was shown to be for the greater good as one of the Talith, the 'beautiful people'. |
The basic outline of this book is one of those that can be simplified down to 'the child destined for greater things', here we have a child with no name at first but who is called Imrhien, a character with problems - she is a scarred, hideous mute. |
And so onto book 2, which pretty much continues where Book 1 (The Ill-Made Mute - see review) left off. |
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