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. She travels to the land of Liminus, which has been conquered by a hideous dictator, the Gamp. It’s just as well Dhikilo is a brave, resourceful girl with many unexpected skills, because she needs them all to cope with the threats and perils thrown at her by the creatures she meets – the Magwitches, the Quilps, the Spottletoes and other strange tribes. Can she escape from the terrifying Bleak House? Can she stop the Gamp destroying the language? And can Dhikilo – a girl with no past and no country – discover who she is and where she really belongs?"