“Books train your imagination to think big.” Taylor Swift

Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick and Sinead O’Hart discuss their breathtakingly atmospheric new books. If you love adventure, myth, mysticism and magic, this is the event for you!

In Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick’s Sisters of the Moon, Suzy Button is grieving for her dead mother, but also for the friends she’s left behind, the father who no longer laughs and the life that she once had. In desperation she finds herself in the garden in the middle of the night, under the light of a supermoon, wishing everything would change. And suddenly, it does.

In Sinead O’Hart’s Sword of the Sun, Ben and his family have to leave Dublin for the remote house where his mother grew up. Ben isn’t optimistic about what lies ahead, for the move means fitting into a life with aunts and a cousin he doesn’t know. He unexpectedly finds himself drawn into the mysteries of the wild mystical landscape. He can sense its power, and see a light shining from the mountain on the horizon.

Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick is a writer and illustrator who has won 10 CBI Book of the Year Awards. A writer and podcaster, Sinéad O’Hart has novels for older readers as well as series for younger readers about a fairy with a tricky ability to transform into a rabbit at any given moment.

In conversation with author Sarah Rees Brennan.