Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.
Uprooted from his city life by the death of his father, Dark is called into a rath as he wanders the fields near his new home. There, he meets people big and little whose magnificent stories of warriors, monsters and the fairy people provide an escape from Dark's crumbling school and home life.
A collection of short stories and poems by Ireland's top children's writers, edited by Eoin Colfer (author of Artemis Fowl) and illustrated by world-renowned artist PJ Lynch