Naeli and the Secret Song

Author: Bilan, Jasbinder

Interest age: from c 8 years

Published on 5 June 2025 by Chicken House Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
197 x 130 x 16 | 190g

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From the author of the Costa Award-winning Asha

& the Spirit Bird comes a stunning new historical

adventure …

Naeli loves her life in Hyderabad, India, yet she yearns to find

her English father, who left when she was little. When a mysterious

ticket arrives from England, Naeli abandons her familiar world

to track him down.

Armed only with her father’s name and cherished violin,

she embarks on a bold adventure through Victorian London and beyond

...

A stunning new novel by bestselling author Jasbinder

Bilan; author of Asha & the Spirit Bird, Tamarind

& the Star of Ishta and Aarti &

the Blue Gods

A gothic historical tale of family, music and mystery

Jasbinder is the winner of the Costa Book Award, The

Indie Book Award and the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition,

and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's

Book Prize

PRAISE FOR JASBINDER BILAN:

'This book is such a light-filled, huge-hearted delight of

an adventure.' KATHERINE RUNDELL

'Satisfyingly classic in feel' GUARDIAN

'A heartfelt and mystical children’s adventure story' TELEGRAPH

'Atmospheric, dreamy, charged with wonder and menace, loss,

sorrow and delight' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT