Title: Swallow's dance
Description: Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption and tsunami throw the entire world into darkness. In the resulting chaos, Leira finds her noble-born privilege reduced to nothing; alone with her injured mother and elderly nurse, Leira's only hope of survival is her own resourcefulness.
Subjects: Families, Juvenile fiction, Bronze age, Survival, Natural disasters, Children's stories, Australian fiction, Nobility, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Natural disasters, fiction
Places: Crete (Greece)