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The Diviner's Tale

✍ Scribed by Bradford Morrow


Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
228 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0547504381

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✦ Synopsis


"In addition to scaring the daylights out of us, The Diviner's Tale stands up for the offbeat and unconventional in human nature" (The Boston Globe).

Cassandra Brooks is a diviner, what used to be called a water-witch. Hired by a developer to dowse some land in upstate New York, she is walking a lonely forested valley one spring morning when she comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra's credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, during a return visit with the sheriff to have another look, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woodsβ€”alive, and the very picture of Cassandra's hanged girl.

What follows is the narrative of ever-deepening and increasingly bizarre divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, the struggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she'd long since...


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