Children of the Quicksands

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City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village.

Theres no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside.

Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but shes tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring. Caught in the sinking red quicksand of a forbidden lake, her fantastical journey begins

Winner of the 2019 Times/Chicken House Childrens Fiction Competition, Children of the Quicksands is a richly imagined magical realist adventure set in West Africa by a new voice in childrens writing, Efua Traor.