Wanderings of a Wild Child

CHILDREN'S FICTION

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Imagine stepping outside your front door early one morning and finding that the world around you has changed. The familiar neighborhood has vanished. Where your neighbors’ houses once stood, rugged cliffs rise, their faces dotted with dark caves. A few of the cave mouths flicker with a soft amber glow.

The tarmacked road has melted away, replaced by a wide, lazy lake that laps gently at the shore. The chaotic street sounds have disappeared, replaced by a whispering breeze that playfully teases the leaves of the sturdy, ancient trees, as if telling them that change is in the air. A pale sun peeks shyly through a crooked gap in the rock face opposite.

Suddenly, movement in one of the shadowy caves catches your attention. A timid, slight figure emerges, glancing furtively around. It is a Wild Child.

Will you be brave enough to follow her? To become her unseen, silent companion as she takes her first steps away from familiar routines and comforts into a wider, wilder world of danger, challenge, and misadventure?

This is the beginning of her journey from childhood to young adulthood. Will you choose to walk beside her?

Isobel was born in the Southeast of England in 1979. From a young age she showed a passionate interest in writing, in particular poetry, having had one or two of her poems published in anthologies during the 1990s. After completing a BA Hons Degree in English and Creative Studies at Portsmouth University in 2001, Isobel put aside her pen for a few years in order to go travelling with her then partner and now husband, Richard. During their travels, Isobel and Richard found themselves encompassed in a wonderful, diverse, creative and magical community nestled in the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The couple spent the subsequent years travelling between their newfound community and family in the UK and United States. During these years Isobel occasionally picked up her pen to write poems for family and friends. Wanderings of a Wild Child is Isobel’s first book to be published, and the first part of an adventurous trilogy loosely based on the author’s own experiences and misadventures but set in a wildly fictional and fantastical landscape.