The novel introduces us to Cal, who is a teenager on the run, emotionally and literally.
Corbenic is my favourite of the books I’ve read by her. I will never be as good a writer as Catherine Fisher, mainly because her work is so psychologically complex and her characters so layered that I fear I’d lose myself if I tried to write in so deep a way, but she’s one of the writers I look to for guidance. Sometimes, I re-read Catherine Fisher’s books to remind myself why I love to write so much, and what I want – ideally – to achieve in a story of my own. (Mar.Red Fox (imprint of Random House Children’s Books), 2002, edition of ‘Corbenic’ Fisher's story is just dark enough to stand out from the fantasy pack, and positive and exciting enough that it may well send readers scrambling for other texts on Celtic legends. " Rob's skills as an artist land him a job working on the group's archaeological dig, which in time uncovers a mysterious tree that is growing upside-down, into the earth, planted 4,000 years ago as "an axis, a pole linking this place and the Unworld." Vetch turns out to be much more powerful than Rob first imagined a journey to the Unworld below leads to a confrontation with the King that holds Chloe's psyche captive-and not, it seems, entirely against her will. Vetch speaks in ominous tones: "The word is the reason I've come. Rob gets caught up in the rite, and ends up pulling a man named Vetch from a dark ditch in the ground. Her older brother, Rob, the principal protagonist, is goofing off with a friend in a field when he stumbles upon a pagan ritual in progress. The story opens in Avebury near Stonehenge, where young Chloe has been in a coma for three months, the victim of a horseback riding accident.
) infuses her haunting tale with the Celtic legend of Taliesin and Ceridwin.
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