![]() ![]() Misinformation clings like mist to the entire story. Her understanding of the world and her prejudices shift, as do social attitudes. Instead the story has unfolded in an “organic, totally chaotic way” through the eyes of Elspeth. “I don’t try to control everything because I wouldn’t have ever begun,” she says. Has it been difficult adhering each new title to the increasingly complicated internal logic? ![]() With each book the Obernewtyn world map has expanded like unlocked doors to ever more rooms. Readers have followed the plucky, young orphan Elspeth Gordie as she banded together with other “Talented Misfits” to form a community of young people with telepathic powers, before embarking on a quest to destroy a secret cache of potentially cataclysmic weapons. ![]() The series debut, Obernewtyn, was first published in 1987, and now thousands of pages of high-adventure, tense battle scenes and sea-swept romance later Carmody has released the seventh and final book, the longest yet at 1,120 pages. ![]()
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