Lirael hasn’t felt just like a true child from the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father’s identity, Lirael resembles no-one else in her huge extended family surviving in the Clayr’s glacier. She doesn’t even have the Sight–the ability to See into the present and possibly futures–that may be the extremely birthright from the Clayr.

Nonetheless, it is Lirael in whose hands the fate from the Aged Kingdom lies. She must undertake a desperate objective under the growing shadow of an ancient evil–one that opposes the Royal Family, blocks the Sight of the Clayr, and threatens to break the very boundary between Life and Loss of life itself. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Doggie to greatly help her, Lirael must find the courage to get her own hidden destiny.