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The Dark Is Rising
  • ISBN: 9780241377093
  • Pages: 272
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Puffin
  • Introduction: Robert Macfarlane

The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper
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The second novel in Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising sequence.

It is Midwinter’s Eve, the night before Will’s eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. Will is about to make a shocking discovery – that he is the last person to be born with the power of the Old Ones, and as a guardian of the Light he must begin a dangerous journey to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.

Reviewed by Sophie Breese in Slightly Foxed Issue 52.



Myth and Magic

When I was 10 I read Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone for the first time. And I will never forget the moment on p. 218 in my now broken-backed copy of this novel when I experienced what I can...

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