On her eighteenth birthday, Hono is to be crowned Queen of the City of Winter but the Dragon disrupts the coronation ceremony with a peculiar cry:Listen. Listen. Listen!There is one more task to free the City of Winter of all enchantment-and Hono must listen carefully for it.A Still, Small Voice is the fourth in the North seriesBook 1: When Winds Blow coldBook 2: The Flame of the NorthBook 3: Beneath the Rumbling EarthBook 4: A Still, Small Voice Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. In 2015, she traded in a life of annoying other bean counters for one of annoying the online world with questions about life and death and everything in between. The answer is sometimes 42. Sometimes they try to eat you.When she is not writing or nitpicking over other writers' copy, she can be found reading a book or attempting to organise her room. A curse binds the City of Winter and the Dragon's Prophecy holds the key to breaking it. But will a poor fisherman from the South have the means to fulfil the prophecy? Or will the foreignness of the North itself repel him and his efforts?The Painted Hall Collection is a series of short, old-school fairy-tales designed to open your eyes to wonder.
