ABOUT THE BOOK:

The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.

When Brimstone called, she always came.

For the most part, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping.

Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Laini Taylor lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, the illustrator Jim de Bartolo, and her daughter Clementine. Daughter of Smoke and Bone is her fourth novel.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

Laini Taylor will be on Drivetime from 1800 on Monday 31 October to talk to Simon about her book.

If you're reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone along with the Book Club you can chat to other readers on this page during the interview.

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