From the back cover:
It is the start of the Summer of the Late Rose. Redwall Abbey, the peaceful home of a community of mice, slumbers in the warmth of a summer afternoon. The mice are busy preparing for a great jubilee feast.
But not for long. Cluny is coming! The evil one-eyed rat warlord is advancing with his battle-scarred mob. And Cluny wants Redwall...
Redwall is an extraordinarily powerful first novel and should be read by everyone over the age of nine. Written by an ex-Liverpool docker, it was nominated for the Carnegie Award and has now sold nearly one million copies worldwide.
A paragraph from the book:
Wild eyed, with the terror of rat smell in its nostrils, the horse plunged ahead without any driver. Where the hay cart was taking him was of little concern to Cluny. Straight on the panicked horse galloped, past the milestone lodged in the earth at the roadside, heedless of the letters graven in the stone: 'Redwall Abbey, fifteen miles'.
Cluny was a God of War!
Cluny was coming nearer! |
