My thanks to the nice people at Harper Collins for sending the book.
While ''The Deep'' stands up by itself, it would be better to read [[''Ingo]] '' and [[The Tide Knot]] first. Frances Hardinge's [[Verdigris Deep]] also combines family stresses with magic fantasy, while Katherine Langrish's [[Troll series]] asks children to show courage in the face of supernatural danger.
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