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  • Published: 1 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781775531357
  • Imprint: RHNZ Children’s ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 132

The Unquiet



A gripping fantasy adventure novel for young readers.

A gripping fantasy adventure novel for young readers.

Over the galaxy, a strange, deafening tide is flooding. The planet Pluto disappears. Creeping in from between star systems is The Unquiet. It stinks like a million burning tyres, and it jabbers and screams as if the sky is in agony. Soon it attacks the earth: swallowing entire countries.

A second, smaller power seeks out Tansy, a young girl in a town at the bottom of the world. She has a gift.The earth urgently needs that gift, and it also needs the knowledge that a boy called Anaru holds. Together Tansy and Anaru – with guides from another realm – travel far into the heart of the earth. What will they discover there? How can they help to stem the world’s great unrest?

Calling on great myths of the world, The Unquiet is a spellbinding story that cradles a deep peace at its core. “There’s only one planet that weaves into its spinning the wild thread of imagination. It touches everything we know.”

  • Published: 1 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781775531357
  • Imprint: RHNZ Children’s ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 132

About the author

Carolyn McCurdie

The Unquiet is Carolyn McCurdie’s first novel. She has had several stories published by Radio NZ and in Landfall and Takahe. In 1998 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award and in 2002 she worked with Sue McCauley as her mentor. A former teacher, Carolyn now works as a part-time librarian. She lives in Dunedin.

Awards & recognition

Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award

Awarded  •  2007  •  Storylines Notable Junior Fiction