# The Whispering Mountain (Prequel to the Wolves Chronicles series)

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- Authors: [Joan Aiken](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-aiken)
- Publisher: Puffin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4137-554-0
- Published: 2016-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again. For young Owen Hughes and his friend Arabis, it is the start of a hair-raising race to save the harp from sinister Lord Malyn. As they struggle to keep it out of his hands, they are plunged into a wild adventure involving murder, kidnapping, underground worlds, savage beasts, floods, avalanche, the mysterious children of the Pit - and above all, a man who will stop at nothing to get the harp back again. Winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Award.