The Keeping Place (The Obernewtyn Chronicles) [Import] [Paperback]

Isobelle Carmody (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 784 pages
• Publisher: Viking Australia (June 30, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0670853585
• ISBN-13: 978-0670853588
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

More About the Author

ISOBELLE CARMODY is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's and juvenile literature. She divides her time between a home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and her travels abroad. Isobelle began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles when she was just fourteen years old. She continued to work on these while completing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in literature and philosophy, followed by a cadetship in journalism. The first two books in the Obernewtyn series were short listed for the CBC Children's Book of the Year in the Older Readers category; Scatterlings won Talking book of the Year. The Gathering was a joint winner of the 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award and the 1994 Children's Literature Peace Prize. Greylands won an Aurealis Award and a White Raven at Bologna, while Billy Thunder and the Night Gate was shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature in the 2001 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Both Little Fur and A Fox Called Sorrow received BAAFTA Industry Awards for design. Alyzon Whitestarr won the coveted Golden Aurealis for overall best novel at the Aurealis Awards. With Nan Mc Nabb she was the participating editor of a two book collection of stories titled respectively The Wilful Eye and The Wicked Wood, released in 2011. Her most recent book The Red Wind won Book of the Year. She is currently working on the final book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Red Queen.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, January 29, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Keeping Place (The Obernewtyn chronicles) (Paperback)

I began these books over a year ago and i fell instantly in love with them. I think that isobel carmody is an amazing writer, and i simmply don't understand how the fourth isn't published in the US (i spent a month's worth of alowance to get it shipped from australia).

The Keeping Place is the fourth book in the obernewtyn chronicles and easily the best. It follows the quest of Elspeth Gordie as she seeks to run obernewtyn and balance her personal quest to distroy the beforetime weaponmacihines. the reader will get gripped and puulled into the story. all of the characters are remarkably realistic and each has his or her own distinct personality.

my biggest complaint about this book is that i finished it, and the fifth one isn't out yet. more so than even harry potter, i wish that this author would get the next book published.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the back cover--, December 3, 2003

By 

Alice Davies (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Keeping Place (The Obernewtyn chronicles) (Paperback)

'Look out,' I screamed. The flying creature lashed out and I stared in horror at Rushton's bloodied arm. Maruman leapt between us in his tyger form. 'Let me go to him!' I screamed.

'He is a dream but the beast is not. It comes! Wake!'

After a kidnapping, Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council, using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer, Kasanda, vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past, forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails, stalked by a terrifying winged beast, with the cat, Maruman, as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetime Misfits and their enemy, Govamen.

Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest is intimately linked to the Misfits' refuge Overnewtyn -- its past and its future . . .

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, June 11, 2005

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Cristiana M. Kaminsky (Olympia WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Keeping Place (The Obernewtyn chronicles) (Paperback)

Things move way more slowly in this book than they do in the previous three, and there are some parts where you get frustorated with the little amount of action in the beggening. BUT JUST KEEP READING IT, this book gets way more intereasting as carmody winds you through Elspeth's intrieging tale. The keeping place is defenitly my favorite book in the series.