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The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke
Kirsty Applebaum
Word count: 55,000
Genre: fantasy, fairy tale
Age range: 9+
Debut: no, other Nosy Crow titles include The Middler and TrooFriend
Illustrations: no Series/standalone: standalone
Why did you acquire it?
I acquired it because it’s a brilliant concept, beautifully told, from an amazing writer.
Synopsis
Ok, so I’ve aged again.Voice got a little bit deeper, arms grown a little bit longer. But it was only a rabbit. It’ll shorten a few days from me, a week at the most.Talents like this don’t come free, you know.There’s always a price.
Save a bit of life, give a bit of life. That’s how it goes.
Twelve-year-old Lonny is a lifeling boy, able to save living creatures from the point of death - but for every crea- ture he saves, his own life is shortened in return.
Lonny lives in the forest with his poor, watchmaker father and his shy, non-lifeling brother, Midge - whom Lonny blames for their mother’s death.The boys are kept well hidden from the nearby town, Farstoke.They are
