Return of the Golden Age
Marilyn Peake
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2005 Double Dragon Publishing
ISBN: 1554042569

Wiley O’Mara & the boys return from the deep.

If you haven't read The Fisherman's Son & The City of the Golden Sun, you're going to want to before setting out on the Return of the Golden Age, the third episode of this thrilling, fantastical boys' adventure.

Now those boys from the magnificent ancient city submerged beneath the ocean return to Wiley's own impoverished island. The boys, having been protected for thousands of years by a magical air bubble, must now adjust to life in a poor village at the turn of the 19th century.

& Wiley has to help them to adapt & survive. What he soon realizes is he also has to help his erstwhile neighbors, the villagers, understand their heritage – that they are descendants of a rich & powerful people.

Return of the Golden Age is filled with magical beings & places (& any resemblance to the fabled green Isle of Erin is just a figment of your imaginings), including golden rings & a mysterious cave.

Once again, Marilyn Peake has penned a winner. Dive in & meet the boys & all manner of magical things.
(11/06/05)

Rebecca