Review: The Ghost Drum by Susan Price

In a nutshell: an exquisite fable-for-all-ages of almost poetic beauty.

"In a place far distant from where you are now grows an oak-tree by a lake.

Round the oak's trunk is a chain of golden links.

Tethered to the chain is a learned cat, and this most learned of all cats walks round and round the tree continually.

As it walks one way, it sings songs.

As it walks the other, it tells stories.

This is one of the stories the cat tells."

That's the opening paragraph of 'The Ghost Drum' by Susan...