Sixteen-year-old friends Red, Leo, Rose, & Naomi are misfits; still figuring out who they are & who they want to be.
Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive.
Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has
Enter the Mirrorscape
- an amazing world limited only by the artist's imagination... Fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a master painter, Ambrosius Blenk. Son of a village weaver, Mel is over-awed by the master's richly coloured & vividly detailed paintings. He is particularly amazed by the colours, because there are no colours back home. To have colour in your life, you have to buy the Pleasure, & the sinister scarlet-robed Fifth Mystery own the rights to such Pleasures. Soon, Mel & his new friends Ludo & Wren find themselves caught in a power struggle between the Mystery & the master. One that involves stepping through paintings into a world where the bizarre is commonplace & all logic is irrelevant. A world where angels, pyramid mazes, imaginary monsters, talking houses &
- most importantly
- the simple paintbrush all combine to form a hugely original & deeply compelling fantasy. This is a thrilling adventure filled with fantastical creatures in an incredibly visual secret world.