Agent: Claire Wilson, Rogers, Coleridge & White. Unflinching and gorgeously written, this feminist novel is important, timely, and a compulsive read.
From the highly acclaimed author of the beloved The. Then Olive meets three wild, mysterious strangers: Ivy, Hazel and Rowan. It starts with simple items like hair clips and jewellery, but soon it’s clear that Rose has lost something bigger something she won’t talk about. Told in a mix of letters, family stories, and narrative, this devastating novel manages to find hope for the future while sending pointed messages that are as vital as they are timely. All the Bad Apples by Mora Fowley-Doyle: 9780525552741 : Books Unflinching and gorgeously written, this feminist novel is important, timely, and a compulsive read. One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. Fowley-Doyle ( The Accident Season) draws upon the all-too-horrific fates of unwed mothers-to-be and their children to tell an uncompromising, raw tale, and the curse’s inclusion injects a note of resonant myth. What she discovers is generations’ worth of shame, secrecy, and sorrow resulting from Ireland’s religiously and culturally restrictive views on teenage pregnancy, “fallen women,” queerness, and reproductive rights. With companions, including best friend Finn as well as Mandy’s newly revealed teen daughter, Ida, Deena follows a trail of letters across Ireland, each one uncovering another piece of her family’s tragedy-laden history. Soon after her older sister, Mandy, vanishes and is presumed dead, Deena Rys, 17, who has just come out as gay to her disapproving family, discovers a letter suggesting that Mandy is still alive and seeking to break the family curse, which supposedly befalls “bad apples” when they turn 17.
Unless it's leading them toward things that were never meant to be found.In this emotionally brutal drama set in 2012 Ireland, a young woman goes on a road trip to uncover her family’s secret past. And it just might be their chance to find what they each need to set everything back to rights. Damp, tattered and ancient, it's full of hand-inked charms to conjure back things that have been lost. When they discover the spellbook, it changes everything. The trio are wild and alluring, but they seem lost, too - and like Rose, they're holding tight to painful secrets. And Olive meets three mysterious strangers: Ivy, Hazel, and her twin brother, Rowan, secretly squatting in an abandoned housing estate.
Then seductive diary pages written by a girl named Laurel begin to appear all over town. It starts with simple items like hairclips and jewelry, but soon it's clear that Rose has lost something much bigger, something she won't talk about, and Olive thinks her best friend is slipping away. One stormy Irish summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. The highly anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of The Accident Season is a gorgeous, twisty story about things gone missing, things returned from the past, and a group of teenagers connected in ways they could never have imagined.
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