Book reviews

CHOCOLAT author Joanne Harris is best known for her evocative, food-inspired novels, but Runelight is the second in a series of books for young adults that reinterpret and adapt Norse mythology.

It is three years after the events of Runemarks. Maddy Smith, one of Thor’s twin daughters, is living in Malbry and is more powerful than the fallen gods of the Aesir and Vanir thanks to the runemark on her hand.