{"product_id":"deep-is-the-fen-by-lili-wilkinson-9781761066863","title":"Deep Is the Fen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOTABLE BOOK: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED: 2024 Best Young Adult Novel, Aurealis Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSelected as one of the Best Young Adult Books of 2024 - Readings Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeep Is the Fen\u003c\/em\u003e follows Merriwether Morgan, who doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is: simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Merry's best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen—a secret society upholding backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions—and she is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with her academic arch-nemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face behind a glamour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn ancient Toad ritual is being held in the nightmarish Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn't rescue Teddy, she'll lose him forever. But the further she travels into Deeping Fen's foul waters, the more Merry wonders if she can possibly save her friend—or if she's walking straight into a trap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause there's nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eA Hunger of Thorns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Completely entrancing.' - Amie Kaufman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A lush, spellbinding tale with dangerously enchanting characters.' - CS Pacat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Unlike anything else. Wilkinson creates a whole new kind of magic.' - Scott Westerfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is my kind of fairy tale: visceral and dark, lush and lovely.' - Kate J Armstrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46547217252588,"sku":"9781761066863","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28055573482814.jpg?v=1749870582","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/deep-is-the-fen-by-lili-wilkinson-9781761066863","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}