The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind...and is breaching the everyday world. This is a chilling prophecy from the Oracle; a conflict between two girls; and with just twelve days to stave off the Apocalypse, carnage is about to be unleashed...

 

There are 592 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat (made into a major film starring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche), Five Quarters of the Orange, The Lollipop Shoes and Blue-Eyed Boy, amongst others. She lives in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, with her husband and daughter.