Does the Walker choose the Path, or the Path the Walker? This is where the book gets its theme through to the reader. I read the book when I was a young boy. I loved Garth Nix as an author and had just finished reading his "Seventh Tower" series so I looked for another of his books. I found this book. It may be fictional but I still took a lot of what I read to heart.
The story starts out years before the present time. A woman had just given birth to a baby girl before she died. The camp in which the now dead woman had stumbled into was that of a nomadic clan. The healer could do nothing to help the woman, and the child was in danger as well. The baby died. Then a figure stepped out of the woods and told them to give him the baby. The man went cold and stiff. Icicles formed on his nose. Little did they know the man had just entered death. The man "Abhorsen" looked for the baby he found her just up the river. He also found his arch nemeses Kerrigor. After a scuffle, Abhorsen banished Kerrigor back to the gate and returned to life with the baby. Astonished, the clan was found with a lively baby in their midst. The Charter Mage (person who did magic) christened the baby with a charter mark (allows magic to flow through the individual) and Abhorsen chose the name Sabriel for his daughter.
Then it goes to present day Ancelstierre where she is a student at a boarding school. One night there is a figure outside so she steps into death to try and banish it. It is actually a sending of her father and it gives her his sword and bells (the tools of a necromancer). She must now go on an adventure to find out what happened to her father and maybe even the entire kingdom.
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