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The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam
- Author
- Annelise Gray
- Narrator
- Kerry Wotton
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.
Phoebe dreams of becoming an artist like her grandmother, Cass, a brilliant storyteller who has passed on her love of Greek myths to Phoebe. But Cass is disappearing before Phoebe’s eyes, lost to a cruel illness that is destroying her memory. When Phoebe ruins Cass's seascape inspired by childhood holidays on the Greek island of Ithaca, she is mysteriously swept away to a fantasy world that resembles her favourite myth of all – The Odyssey.
There Phoebe is caught up in a young boy’s mission to find his long-lost father – a shipbuilder to King Odysseus, last seen going off to fight in the Trojan War – and faces an epic quest of her own. To seek the shape-shifting monster whose ravenous and growing power may hold the key to Phoebe fighting her own demons. Only by defeating the monster and facing her fears, will she have any hope of finding her way home and back to Cass.
Critics Review
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'We all have monsters to face. This book skillfully combines a fast-moving fantasy adventure in the world of the Odyssey with a very real struggle against the monsters of guilt and grief'
Gillian Cross, author of The Demon Headmaster series
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'The story is ultimately one of both hope and acceptance as seen through the eyes of children... Thoughtful, but never heavy-handed, this is an ideal class reader. Highly recommended'
School Reading List
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'Interwoven with myth, but with a truly original slant... new and exciting'
English 4 – 11 Magazine
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'A fantastic mythical, timeslip adventure, with a brave and thoughtful heroine at its heart... a wonderful blend of thrills and tenderness'
Juno Magazine
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'Imaginative and engrossing... this book would make an excellent class read'
Through the Bookshelf
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'Completely captivating... a wonderful combination of realistic fiction and brilliant mythological fantasy'
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Details
- Author
- Annelise Gray
- Narrator
- Kerry Wotton
- Duration
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035918768
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Myths and Legends fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam by Annelise Gray, read by Kerry Wotton.A mythical timeslip story about family, love, loss and memory, with an epic sea voyage at its heart, inspired by the legend of Odysseus.Phoebe dreams of becoming an artist like her grandmother, Cass, a brilliant storyteller who has passed on her love of Greek myths to Phoebe. But Cass is disappearing before Phoebe’s eyes, lost to a cruel illness that is destroying her memory. When Phoebe ruins Cass's seascape inspired by childhood holidays on the Greek island of Ithaca, she is mysteriously swept away to a fantasy world that resembles her favourite myth of all – The Odyssey.There Phoebe is caught up in a young boy’s mission to find his long-lost father – a shipbuilder to King Odysseus, last seen going off to fight in the Trojan War – and faces an epic quest of her own. To seek the shape-shifting monster whose ravenous and growing power may hold the key to Phoebe fighting her own demons. Only by defeating the monster and facing her fears, will she have any hope of finding her way home and back to Cass.
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