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Broken Strings
A warm comic-fantasy adventure about a young bard, a gift that refuses to stay metaphorical, and the people who become family when the tune goes wrong.
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♪✦Comic fantasy for kind hearts and crooked roads
Every good story needs a little trouble.
Emma Townsend writes warm, wry adventures about magical music, found family, and what happens when a song takes you entirely too literally.
MAGICAL MUSIC ✦ FOUND FAMILY ✦ DRY HUMOUR ✦ TROUBLESOME FOOTNOTES ✦ UNLIKELY HEROES ✦
Open the right door
What brought you to the tavern?
The opening duet
Begin where the strings break.
Book One
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Scrolls and Scribes
The Bard World story continues with magical music, found family, troublesome documents and consequences that nobody thought to put in the footnotes.
Step inside →A small experiment
Compose a bardic mishap
Choose an intention and a mood. Bard World will supply a possible consequence. No furniture is insured.
The air is listening…
Beyond the page
A world that answers back
Readers first meet Emma as a ten-year-old pink-and-white husky whose songs create real magic. She is not frozen in childhood: the series follows her as she grows, learns and discovers that power rarely comes with tidy instructions.
Kindness is rarely the easiest magic. It may be the bravest.Explore the world
For the curious
Stay for one more story.
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