Dreamhunter

Southland is much like New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century, except that it borders the Place, a stark realm that only a few people can enter. Dreams found there can be caught and carried home to be performed for paying audiences, for healing, entertainment and darker purposes, and dreamhunters are celebrities who play to the elite at the Rainbow Opera in the capital, Founderston. Laura Hame, whose father Tziga was the first dreamhunter and remains the best known, has led a comfortable life in the shadow of her confident cousin Rose. When the two girls make their attempt to cross over, Laura has the gift and Rose does not. Then Tziga disappears, the cousins are caught up in government intrigue and lies, and Laura learns that her inheritance holds secrets she never suspected.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

448 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Series

Dreamhunter Duet, book 1

First published

2005 by Fourth Estate

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9780732281939 (Fourth Estate, Australia)

9780571224555 (Faber Children's Books, United Kingdom)

9780374318536 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9780312535711 (Square Fish, United States)

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