Series: Book 5 in the Abhorsen series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction
Summary
The long-awaited fifth installment in Garth Nix's New York
Times bestselling Old Kingdom series, for readers who enjoy
series by Rae Carson, Kristin Cashore, Scott Westerfeld, and
Cassandra Clare. Goldenhand takes place six months after the events of
Abhorsen and follows the novella Nicholas Sayre and the
Creature in the Case, which is featured in Across the Wall. Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but
now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic.
On a dangerous journey, Lirael returns to her childhood home,
the Clayr's Glacier, where she was once a Second Assistant
Librarian. There, a young woman from the distant North brings
her a message from her long-dead mother, Arielle. It is a
warning about the Witch with No Face. But who is the Witch, and
what is she planning? Lirael must use her new powers to save
the Old Kingdom from this great danger—and it must be
forestalled not only in the living world but...