โ Frances Hardinge
๐ Fiction
๐
2017
๐ Pan Macmillan
๐ English
โ 285 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
A Skinful of Shadows
โ Scribed by Frances Hardinge
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 302 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 150983754X
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โฆ Synopsis
This is the story of a bear-hearted girl...
As a young child, Makepeace Danners was sent by her mother to sleep in the graveyard. Told it was to build her defences against the spirits that lurked there, she spent night after night bedded down amongst the ghosts, with only mice and rats for company.
As she grew older, Makepeace realised that she had a strange talent. There is a space inside her which can be filled by the spirits of the dead. This talent marks her as very interesting to the Felmotte family, the rich and powerful ancestors from whom she has inherited it. Her mother hopes her childhood training will protect her from them, but one fateful day Makepeace lets her guard down, and now she has a spirit inside her.
The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, and it may be her only defence when the Felmotte family come to claim her as one of their own. There is talk of civil war, and they need people with talents such as hers to protect their dark and...
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