About the Author
Reshma K. Barshikar is an erstwhile Investment Banker who fell down a rabbit hole in 2013 and discovered a world outside a fluorescent cubicle. Since then she has wholly embraced daydreaming as her key skill. Fade Into Red, published by Penguin Random House, was her debut novel. Her first YA Fantasy novel, The Hidden Children, won the 2019 Children’s Book Award and went on to become a National Bestseller. When she’s not dreaming up elaborate plots she can barely worm her way out of, she also writes features and contributes to the the National Geographic Traveller, Harper’s Bazaar, Grazia, The Sunday Guardian, The Mint Lounge, The New Indian Express and The Hindu. She is also the creator and founder of The Hidden Imagination Writers Academy.
Book Description
Blurb ‘What price would you pay to be extraordinary? What would you do to speak to a butterfly? Short Synopsis Shayamukthy cruises through life: shooting hoops, daydreaming and listening to her favourite books. Even moving from the US to India, to a new school, a new culture, hasn't really rattled her. But something isn't right anymore and it begins when a New Girl joins the school. She pulls Shui into a world of magic and wonderment, a world she has been hidden from all her life. What starts as a quest to look for a lost book, hurtles Shui into a world where people live in trees, talk to the dead and speak to butterflies. But like all power, magic comes at a steep price and under all things wondrous lie demons waiting to crawl out. The more Shui learns, the more she doubts everything and everyone around her. Will she be able to master her powers, or will they devour her and everyone she loves?