root-book

A book or maybe 3 mini-books which are not in the main sequence of ''''Gift and Power series 1'''', but a little branch that sets things up for G+P 3. It starts earlier, fails to find a certain category of books in the right section of Foyles in 1970s London, and ends later. If you don''''t want to slog through series 1, this might serve as an alternative introduction to series 3.