A Skinful of Shadows - Couverture rigide

Hardinge, Frances

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 150983754X ISBN 13 : 9781509837540

Editeur : Macmillan, 2017

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Frances Hardinge weaves another darkly extraordinary tale in A Skinful of Shadows, her follow up to the Costa Award-winning novel The Lie Tree

'Hardinge is an unusual talent who deserves to be read by children and adults alike'
Guardian

This is the story of a bear-hearted girl . . .

Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide.
Some people have space within them, perfect for hiding.

Twelve-year-old Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts which try to possess her in the night, desperate for refuge, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard.

And now there's a spirit inside her.

The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, and it may be her only defence when she is sent to live with her father's rich and powerful ancestors. There is talk of civil war, and they need people like her to protect their dark and terrible family secret.

But as she plans her escape and heads out into a country torn apart by war, Makepeace must decide which is worse: possession - or death.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Felmotte family have a dark and terrible secret: inheriting the title of Lord Felmotte means not only taking on centuries of family history, political allegiance and land, but also the souls of all the previous patriarchs - jostling for space within the poor beleaguered body of the heir. When civil war takes the Felmotte heirs from their family seat and into battle for King Charles, attention turns to Kate, the bastard child of the current heir, in possession of the family 'talent'. Working as a servant and kept around in case of just such an emergency, Kate knows what that attention might mean and, rather than become a vessel for the bickering souls of generations of angry, volatile men, arms herself the best way she can - by taking on the spirit of a very angry, very dead bear. With the strength and instincts of the bear she is able to escape her family duty and head out into a country torn apart by war; but must soon decide which fate is worse: possession, or death.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 150983754X
• ISBN 13: 9781509837540
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432