The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick

Published by Orion Children's Books

Price £5.99

It is 1915. Alexandra (or 'Sasha') Fox is seventeen years old. She lives a privileged life in Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom cannot avoid the war, and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future.

Her premonitions show her brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, corpse worms crawling over the faces of soldiers soon to die. And worse, they show her what will happen to Edgar and Tom.

Like the Prophetess Cassandra, who witnessed a different war on the plains of Troy, Sasha is trapped by her tragic power. Cursed by a fate too awful to bear - for who wants to see the end of their own story...? Sasha's story leads her to the French battlefields, and the road to High Wood, pursued all the while by a mysterious vision of a raven, mocking and taunting her.

'A haunting and recommended read' - the Sunday Times

'The story counts down to what seems inevitable, but there's a clever trick here' - TES