Mariel of Redwall

''This article is about the book. For the character, see Mariel Gullwhacker.''



Book Divisions (English)

 * Book 1: The Maid from the Sea
 * Book 2: The Strange Forest
 * Book 3: The Sound of a Bell!

Summary
The protagonist, Mariel Gullwhacker, was enslaved by Gabool the Wild when her father Joseph's ship, the Periwinkle, was captured. It had been carrying a bell to Lord Rawnblade Widestripe in Salamandastron, and that, too, was seized by Gabool. After attempting to attack Gabool, the mouse was thrown into the sea and washed up on the shore, with no memory. She took the name "Storm Gullwhacker", and gave the name "Gullwhacker" to the rope she had used to fight off a seabird.

Three members of the Long Patrol, Colonel Clary, Brigadier Thyme, and the Honorable Rosemary, escorted her to Redwall Abbey,after finding Storm(aka Mariel) fighting toads, where woodlanders helped her regain her memory. She befriended a young fieldmouse named Dandin, the hedgehog,Durry Quill, and a musical hare that carries an instrument called a harolina, Tarquin Longleap Woodsorrel, and they journeyed to Gabool's island of Terramort to defeat him. (Lord Rawnblade also joined with the four comrades.) The denizens of Redwall, meanwhile, defended the Abbey against Greypatch, a searat on the run from Gabool's army, and his horde. Clary and Thyme, along with their secretive squirrel friend Pakatugg, were killed freeing slaves from Greypatch's camp.

The bell was eventually recovered from Gabool, and given to Redwall Abbey as a gift. Named after its creator, it became the Joseph Bell.

Characters in Mariel of Redwall

Release details

 * 1991, UK, Hutchinson Children's Books Ltd., ISBN 009176405X, Pub. Date: October 1991, Hardcover
 * 1992, US, Philomel Books, ISBN 0399221441, Pub. Date: March 1992, Hardcover
 * 1992, UK, Red Fox, ISBN 0099929600, Pub. Date: August 1992, Paperback
 * 1994, UK, Arrow, ISBN 0099319411, Pub. Date: December 1994, Paperback
 * 1999, US, Avon Books, ISBN 0380719223, Pub. Date: June 1999, Paperback
 * 2000, US, Ace, ISBN 0441006949, Pub. Date: March 2000, Paperback
 * 2003, US, Puffin Books, ISBN 0142302392, Pub. Date: March 2003, Paperback
 * 2007, US, Red Fox, ISBN 1862302421, Pub. Date: August 2007, Paperback
 * 2007, UK, Red Fox, ISBN 1862302421, Pub. Date: August 2007, Paperback