THE CHESTNUT SOLDIER

By Jenny Nimmo

Synopsis

The night Evan Llyr phones, the boy magician Gwyn takes out the magic gift his grandmother warned him against: the mutilated figure of a horse. Gwyn feels a strange affinity with Evan, the chestnut-haired soldier, but soon the charming Evan shows the terrible dark side of his nature. Gwyn knows that he must do battle and one of them will perish....Book 3 of 'The Magician Trilogy'

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Narrator	Viki Jacobs
Length	5hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	617650
Publisher	Scholastic; 2009

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