Celandine (novel)

Celandine
	First edition cover
Author	Steve Augarde
Illustrator	Steve Augarde
Language	English
Series	Touchstone Trilogy
Genre	Children's, young adult, fantasy, bildungsroman
Publisher	David Fickling Books
Publication date	22 August 2006
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	496
ISBN	978-0-385-75048-6
LC Class	PZ7.A9125 Cel 2006
Preceded by	The Various
Followed by	Winter Wood

Celandine is a children's fantasy novel by Steve Augarde. It is the second book in the Touchstone Trilogy and was first published in 2006. Celandine is set ninety years before The Various, the first book of the trilogy. It follows the adventures of Celandine (born 1901)^[1] in the years 1914–1915, at the onset of World War I. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter a world where loyalty and independence is fiercely guarded, and where danger lurks in the most unlikely of places. Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge and purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in.

^ “Celandine had first met Fin over three years ago, on 22 June 1911, shortly after her tenth birthday.” (Celandine, Corgi 2006, p. 19). A ‘Howard Family Tree’ in Winter Wood (Corgi 2009, page preceding p. 1), vol. 3 of the trilogy, gives 1902 as date of birth; however, none of the dates (where applicable) in this family tree are in accordance with the happenings in Celandine and the dates given therein.

[1] “Celandine had first met Fin over three years ago, on 22 June 1911, shortly after her tenth birthday.” (Celandine, Corgi 2006, p. 19). A ‘Howard Family Tree’ in Winter Wood (Corgi 2009, page preceding p. 1), vol. 3 of the trilogy, gives 1902 as date of birth; however, none of the dates (where applicable) in this family tree are in accordance with the happenings in Celandine and the dates given therein.

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