'Writing so viscerally good you want to wrap yourself up in it' Sunday Telegraph'The young adult stories of Francis Hardinge follow in the footsteps of the great Diana Wynne Jones by being equally enchanting for children and adults' GuardianThe 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. '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.' 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...
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2018-02-26
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Åh, Frances Hardinge! Älskar berättarperspektivet eller snarare huvudgestalten, vars gradvisa skakande insikt i vad hon är känns ända in i hjärteroten. Ett skrämmande världsbygge och en enormt spännande historia, med en typ av huvudgestalt jag inte mött förut. Synd dock att omslaget inte är lika tilltalande som på Lögnernas träd.
