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ADVANCE INFORMATION

Lawrie Lyte and

the Legacy of

Darkness

Jenny Roostan

KEY SELLING POINTS

A thrilling, action-packed adventure, with many twists and turns that will ignite children’s imaginations.
Danger interwoven with excitement, but also humour.
Set on the Cornish coast in the present day and, mainly, in the nineteenth-century world of smugglers and
wreckers.

On the Cornish coast, in the nineteenth century, a young boy, Edmund, flees for his life as soldiers search his
house. He has with him an ancient family pendant, steeped in mystery and so desired that it has been fought
over for centuries.

Over two hundred years later, while on holiday with his family in Cornwall, Lawrie Lyte suffers a terrifying fall
into a deep crevice. His search for the way out through a network of caves leads to the discovery of the crystal
pendant left behind two centuries ago. When Lawrie emerges from his ordeal, he finds he has been thrown
back into the past to nineteenth-century Cornwall – a terrifying time of notorious smugglers and sinister ship
wreckers.

In a gripping plot of twists and turns, Lawrie’s friendship with Georgina, a runaway, and her entanglement with a
dangerous gang of criminals, hurls him headlong into a perilous adventure, in which he must uncover the
mystic that surrounds the mysterious pendant if he is ever to return to his own time.

Jenny Roostan has enjoyed a career in teaching and now works as an English tutor specialising in creative
writing. She lives in the beautiful county of Devon, where she enjoys many scenic countryside and coastal
walks – a truly great source of inspiration for any writer.

Publication Date: 28th August 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805144984
Thema subject category: YFB – Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 272 pp Portrait Author location: Devon. Setting: Cornwall

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