Description
| Product ID: | 9781529019070 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Sin Eater |
| Authors: | Author: Megan Campisi |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction, England, c 1500 to c 1600 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating For fans of The Binding and The Familiars, The Sin Eater is a story of treason and treachery, and a young girl sentenced to silence . . . <p><b>Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's <i>The Sin Eater</i> is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . .<br><br>'A dark and thrilling page-turner that turns a dystopian eye on the past in an unnervingly contemporary way' - Emma Donoghue, author of <i>Room.</i></b><br><br>A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. Stained by these sins, she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.<br><br>Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. When she’s arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.<br><br>It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one then two of the Queen’s courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors . . .<br><br><b>Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-08 |
