Seven o'clock on a Monday morning five hundred years after the End of the World & goblins had been at the cellar again. Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh & puritanical Order she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left h&. For this is no ordinary birthmark
- it is a runemark a sign of the old gods. In fact Maddy can do things that no-one else can things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye an outsider like herself does she learn what power she really has & what she will be asked to do with it. In Runemarks" Joanne Harris creates a world not unlike our own
- if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans
- & colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery & gritty realism. A disenchanted world where the gods died long ago. Can Maddy bring them back to life?"