Can desire really transform reality?

From award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a contemporary fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ages.

One day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome parents, takes refuge in the dump behind her house. There she finds a broken mirror, a nasty piece of sharp glass... yet she is strangely drawn to it. She soon discovers it has the power to transform even the most drab reality into a fairy-tale world: the grey sky is reflected blue, and Claire's modest, suburban house is transformed into the most beautiful castle.

As Claire grows older, always accompanied by her magic mirror, she can see her face without her teenage acne, and her town before it fell victim to thieving property developers. But, in reality, libraries are being turned into luxury flats wherever she looks, and the boy Claire loves is instead her worst enemy.

Frustrated and angry with the mirror's illusions, Claire is about to destroy it when the mysterious Peter steps in: he has also found a shard of broken mirror, and so begins their journey to piece together the larger puzzle...

Previously published in Italian, French, Greek and Dutch, The Broken Mirror comes to life in English for the first time, to be read with equal pleasure by children and adults.

• We started tracking this book on May 13, 2017.
• This book was £4.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 24 times in the past 2,533 days.
• The current price of this book is £4.31 last checked one day ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past 90 days.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past six months is £3.99.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £3.33.
• The lowest price to date was £2.99 last reached on June 13, 2018.
• This book has been £2.99 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £6.99 last reached on October 13, 2018.
• This book has been £6.99 2 times since we started tracking it.

• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyMyths & LegendsAsian
• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyAnthologies & Short Stories
• Science Fiction & FantasyFantasyComing of Age

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 75 Pages
• File Size: 6,906 KB