![]() ![]() Agent: Nancy Miles, Miles Stott Literary Agency. In the guise of a gorgeously written and disconcerting fairy tale, Hardinge ( A Face Like Glass) delves deeply into the darker side of family life, particularly sibling rivalry and the devastating effect war can have on those left at home. I am happy to say that it also lived up to my very high expectations. Her memories are spotty and inconsistent, store mannequins and dolls turn their heads to follow her movements, and every time she closes her eyes she senses “dreams waiting at the mousehole of her mind’s edge, ready to catch her up in their soft cat-mouth and carry her off somewhere she did not want to go.” Triss feels an overwhelming hunger that cannot be assuaged by human food and suspects she is no longer human. Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song A deliciously other-worldly story, this novel is gripping and packed with vivid description. As the story opens, Triss has somehow fallen into a local pond, barely escaping with her life, and she regains consciousness to find that the world has gone strange. ![]() In this painful and powerful tale set in post-WWI England, readers meet 11-year-old Triss, the coddled daughter of a respected civil engineer and an overprotective mother, as well as her jealous younger sister, Pen. ![]()
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