In the Shropshire village of Tong, a bad tempered tomb dog called Fymm, who is many centuries old, makes a mistake and chooses the wrong schoolgirl to be Task Bearer. Chased by gargoyles, Alice reaches the Green Lady’s cottage, receives the first of her three gifts from the giantess who has mice in her hair, and learns that she must enter the Other World at Thin Time. Her task is to bring back the New Year seeds before midnight and prevent the world from dying. With her small stepbrother Thomas, Ratatosk the squirrel who can’t be trusted, Bridd the singing cockerel from the top of the church tower, and Fymm by her side, she sets out on her dangerous quest. Using the skipping rhyme password to enter the door into The Tree of Life, she travels into the Other World, knowing that she must face the Three Sisters at the Well of Wyrd and face the fury of Nidhogg the Snake-Dragon, armed only with a stone and a gargoyle’s shield. But does she have a loving heart, for without that she will never be able to return to her own time, and the treasure, whatever it is, will never be hers.
After many years taking middle grade school children on environmental study visits to Tong Church and using the church and the village as an extension of my classroom, I finally turned those experiences into a novel. Children reading the book and visiting the area can find the book's characters in the church.
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