Jack of Knives
WINNER £100
Jennifer is the author of four middle grade children’s novels published by Maverick (writing as Jenny Moore). Her latest book, The Misadventures of Nicholas Nabb, is set during the same period as her winning story and also includes a scene at a fairground fortune teller’s. Her young fans will be relieved to hear that it has a far happier ending though!_
Later – much later – Annie would try to explain the peculiar pull of Madame Gisella’s tent that day. How it called to her across the sludge and slop of the muddied fairground, its mouth a dark yawn of promise. , it seemed to say. . Or maybe it was Madame Gisella herself, with her black eyes and jangling wrists, summoning Annie to meet her waiting fortune. . Either way, Annie’s feet had carried her there, away from the clatter and brightness of that innocent Saturday afternoon to the shadowed secrets lurking within. And somehow her last coin was already in her hand before she knew it, clutched between finger
