At the Back of the North Wind

About this book

Diamond sleeps above a stable, where the cold wind comes through a hole in the wall. One night the North Wind appears to him as a woman and carries him high above the sleeping city, towards a place beyond the ordinary world.

George MacDonald's fantasy follows the boy through extraordinary journeys and the smaller kindnesses of everyday life. North Wind can be gentle, terrifying or impossible to understand, and Diamond must learn to live with that mystery. The story joins a child's wonder to difficult questions about suffering, death and what it means to do good.