Product Description
by Julia Golding (Author)
Following the award-winning "The Diamond of Drury Lane", here we present the sea-faring volume from our famous feisty heroine Cat Royal...Cat O'Nine Tails.Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for the British Navy, takes passage to America and navigates her way through a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. From the grand Assembly Rooms of Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, Cat finds she is for once quite out of her depth. All aboard, Cat's going abroad.
Author Biography
Julia Golding is a multi-award winning writer for children and young adults. Former British diplomat and Oxfam policy adviser, she has now published over fifty books in genres ranging from historical adventure to fantasy. Along the way, between having three children, she took a doctorate in English literature from Oxford. Her first novel, 'The Diamond of Drury Lane' (2006), won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Nestle Children's Book Prize. In the US, 'Secret of the Sirens' won the honor book medal of the Green Earth Book Award.
