'Perhaps she did not die,' said Halla, 'perhaps her nurse turned into a bear and carried her away into the forest. Perhaps she was brought up by bears and dragons. Perhaps it was better for her in the end than being a king's child.'

Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and hoard wealth and possessions, or will she travel light?

Written by the extraordinary Scottish author Naomi Mitchison, who wrote over 70 novels from science fiction to historical epic, was one of the first readers of Lord of the Rings before it was published, and died in 1999 at the age of 101, Travel Light is a gorgeous fantasy tale with a witty, feminist twist.