The Sending

The sixth book in The Obernewtyn Chronicles.

The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she can embark on her quest, she must find a lost key. And although she has long prepared for this day, nothing is as she imagined.

Elspeth's search will take her where she never thought to go, and bestow upon her stranger companions than any she thought to have. It will lead her far from her destination to those she thought lost forever.

And it will test her, as she has never been tested before …

About the Author

Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. Whilst she is perhaps best known for the Obernewtyn Chronicles (now comprising six volumes), her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award. Also, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair. She has written many short stories for both children and adults and her picture book The Wrong Thing, illustrated by Declan Lee.

Isobelle's first book in a new series for younger readers – The Red Wind – was published in 2010 and her penulimate book in the award-winning Obernewtyn series – The Sending – will be published in September 2011.

Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia.