D: A Tale of Two Worlds

Faber writes about a brave, resourceful girl called Dhikilo who goes to school in a crumbly seaside town in England, and about what happens when the letter 'D' one day disappears from the language.

"Dhikilo seems to be the only person who notices it’s gone. You’d think the loss of one little letter wouldn’t make much of a ifference to aily life. But it actually makes things very ifficult and, eventually, quite esperate," reads the book's blurb on the website of Faber's agents at Janklow & Nesbit.

"Fortunately, Dhikilo teams up with a mysterious, recently deceased professor and his shape-shifting dog, on a mission to get the D back.…