Publisher's Synopsis

This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.

The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.

Book information

ISBN: 9780241377093
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint: Puffin
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 3718
Number of pages: xiii, 355
Weight: 270g
Height: 192mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 26mm