The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.
Standard Edition Details
£200
Limited to 500 unnumbered copies.
Trimmed page size – 240 x 170mm
Signed by Rovina Cai (artist)
Printed letterpress on 148gsm Mohawk Superfine paper by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Black ink throughout with red on many of the other pages.
16 color plates, including frontispiece. With over 25 black and red letterpress silhouettes.
The Standard edition is quarter-bound in two tone red cloth. The hand marbled face papers have been created by Freya Scott of Paperwilds and the covers have three passes of foil blocking with a further pass of black for the title on the spine.
Silk ribbon marker.
The book comes in a grey buckram covered slipcase, lined with black suede. The front of the slipcase is blocked with one pass of black foil, depicting one of Rovina Cai’s silhouettes.
