Rose was born into the world facing north, and as a north child, superstition says that she will be a wanderer, travelling far from home. This prophecy is fulfilled when she is taken on the back of a white bear to a mysterious empty castle, where a silent stranger appears to her night after night. When her curiosity overcomes her, she loses her heart, and must journey to a land east of the sun and west of the moon to reclaim it. Rose is a North Child, destined to be a wanderer and travel far from home. Unaware of her fate she agrees to go with a mysterious white bear to a distant castle where she falls in love with an enchanted stranger. A beguiling epic of magic, love, loss and betrayal based on the traditional fairytale 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon'. Shortlisted for the Ottakar’s Children’s Book Prize 2006.