Ysabel – Guy Gavriel Kay
Simon & Schuster, 2007
421 pages
RRP: AU$29.95
ISBN: 978-0-7432-5251-5

Reviewed by Cat Sparks

Fifteen-year-old Canadian Ned Marriner is spending six weeks in France, accompanying his famous photographer father and entourage, worried about his doctor mother who’s on assignment for Medicines sans Frontiers in war torn Sudan. A chance meeting with history-savy American exchange student Kate in the Saint-Sauver Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is followed by an encounter with a bald scar-faced man wielding a knife and a mystery: I think the world will end before I ever find him in time.

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