Description
| Product ID: | 9781509868155 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cuckoo Song |
| Authors: | Author: Frances Hardinge |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Cuckoo Song is a breathtakingly dark and twisted tale from the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge. <p><b><i>Cuckoo Song</i> by Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of <i>The Lie Tree</i>, is a fantastically eerie and beautifully written novel, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.</b><br><br><i>The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak. </i><br><br><i>'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.' </i><br><br>When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out.<br><br>Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest to find the truth she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family – before it's too late . . .<br><br><b>'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of </b><b><i>A Monster Calls</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-03-22 |
