Release Day Blitz | The Extremely Epic Viking Tale of Yondersaay by Aoife Lennon-Ritche + Giveaway | presented by @chapterxchapter
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The Extremely Epic Viking Tale of Yondersaay
by Aoife Lennon-Ritche
presented by Tantrum Books!
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Happy Book Birthday, Aoife!
This winter, siblings Ruairi and Dani Miller visit their ancestral homeland: the legendary Viking island of Yondersaay. Even with Granny Miller's storytelling to pass the time, the pair manage to find trouble. In less than twenty-four hours of their arrival, Ruairi is mistaken for the lost Boy King of Denmark, kidnapped by Vikings, and scheduled to be sacrificed at sundown. Granny isn’t very pleased.But when everyone except them goes Viking, the three turn to Granny’s epic tales of the legends of Yondersaay, The Gifts of Odin, and King Dudo the Mightily Impressive for clues. But not all stories end happily, and Ruari, Dani, and Granny will have to write their own happy ending.The Princess Bride meets Vikings in this enchanted tale of high adventure, buried treasure, villainous treachery, violent ends, and – of course – true love. Aoife Lennon-Ritchie's debut middle grade novel, THE EXTREMELY EPIC VIKING TALE OF YONDERSAAY, is a humorous and heartwarming story for readers ages 9+.
The Extremely Epic Viking Tale of Yondersaay
by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie
Publication Date: October 11, 2016
Publisher: Tantrum Books
EXCERPT
“Ready to go, Mum
and Dad?” Granny bellowed down the Millers’ front hallway. Ruairi and Dani
struggled in after her, laden down with her piles and piles of trunks and
hatboxes and suitcases.
“Not quite yet,” Mum said, and the three heard a door slam at the
back of the house.
“Well, get a move on!” Granny shouted. “The taxi is picking us up in
an hour to take us to the airport. We can’t miss that flight as there’s only a
thirty-minute layover in Dubai, and there’s only one flight this week that will
take us from there to Copenhagen and on to Berlin, and from there, it’s a wee
hop to Dublin airport, a wee-er one to Inverness, and in the middle of all
that, there’s the ferry, the catamaran, and the helicopter until finally we catch
the Yonder Air flight to Yondersaay.”
Mum emerged from the living room looking less than delighted with
the sudden change in Christmas plans. “We’re nearly ready, Granny.” She turned
to her children. “Has Granny told you? She’s feeling a little bit homesick, so
Dad and I have agreed that we’ll all go up to Yondersaay for Christmas this
year. On three conditions—” Dani and Ruairi started whooping and cheering
immediately and took no notice of Mum’s three conditions, which were all about
safety and good manners and the usual nonsense.
They hugged their mum and shouted, “Yaaaaaay, we’re going to
Yondersaay!”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Irish actor and writer Aoife Lennon-Ritchie studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Universita di Catania in Italy, University College Dublin in Ireland, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Aoife holds diplomas, degrees and a Masters in the multiple fields of business and information technology, English and classic literature, theatre and creative writing; she looks forward to doing her PhD in Film and Media. Always searching for new adventures, Aoife has lived in the UK, France, Greece, Italy, and several US cities, including Chicago, New York and Pittsburgh. She speaks three (and a half) languages. Although she was once an investment banker, she much prefers acting, fencing, writing, and being a mum. She currently lives in Cape Town with her handsome husband and two small children.
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