Fleeced: The Unravelling

by Julia Wills

Aries remains furious at the loss of his beautiful golden fleece - stolen by Jason and the Argonauts centuries ago. Desperate to find his beloved fleece, Aries and his best friend Alex, the Underworld zookeeper soon discover the Golden Fleece is in the clutches of evil immortal sorceress Medea - now a world-famous fashion designer.

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About the author

Although she was born in the last century, this absolutely does not make Julia as old as the Ancient Greeks. As a January baby, her star sign is Capricorn – the goat with horns as curly as Aries'. However, unlike Aries, she is not bald and she doesn’t have a gigantic bottom. As a child she lived in the north of England, in Stockport, a town famous for its enormous Victorian viaduct made of 11 million bricks. The artist L S Lowry was very fond of painting it, although it did take up most of his paint, which meant that he had to make his cats and dogs very thin.

After studying Psychology at Oxford University, Julia completed a PGCE at Northampton and a Masters in Writing at Glamorgan (now the New University of South Wales). She has always written but has had lots of other jobs too, such as maintaining a photo library for a Texan oil company, tasting sausages, working for batty professors at Oxford and teaching Year Four children in Northamptonshire. As Miss Wills her favourite lesson was history since it was there that she and the children first discovered the Ancient Greeks, their fabulous monsters and just how outrageously a chiton will flap about on a windy day.

“Fleeced!” is her first novel for children.