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  • The Murdstone Trilogy

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Mal Peet
  • Narrated by: James Langton
  • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

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The Murdstone Trilogy

Written by: Mal Peet
Narrated by: James Langton
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Publisher's Summary

How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? From Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet comes an outrageously funny black comedy about an impoverished literary writer who makes a pact with the devil.

Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip - allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien - is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences. The Murdstone Trilogy is a richly dark comedy described by one UK reviewer as "totally insane in the best way possible."

©2014 Mal Peet, first U.S. edition published by Candlewick Press (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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