Moïra Fowley Doyle Bücher

The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season. 'Astonishingly potent' Booklist 'Uncompromising, raw, devastating' Publishers Weekly 'I am in absolute awe of it' Melinda Salisbury On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled - 'bad apples', their father calls them - and Mandy is the baddest of them all. But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.

"Six teenagers come together one stormy Irish summer and after they discover a tattered spellbook, find out they are connected in ways they could never have imagined"--

Zeit der Dunkelheit, Zeit der Geheimnisse ... So lasst uns die Gläser erheben auf die dunkle Zeit … Die dunkle Zeit, wie die 17-jährige Cara, ihre Schwester Alice und ihre restliche Familie es nennen, scheint wie ein Fluch, der sie einmal im Jahr für ein paar Wochen heimsucht. In diesem Zeitraum passieren Unfälle, geliebte Menschen sind schon gestorben. Und dieses Jahr soll es eine der schlimmsten dunklen Zeiten werden, prophezeit Caras Freundin Bea. Mysteriöse Dinge geschehen und bald weiß Cara nicht mehr, was Traum und was Realität, was Magie und was echt ist. Die Grenzen verschwimmen, und als lange vergessene tragische Ereignisse ans Licht kommen, könnte es für Cara, ihre große Liebe Sam und ihre Schwester Alice schon zu spät sein …

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water. An ancient burial mound rising and falling like a chest. The ghost of Stephen Gately reading the ingredients on a ham and cheese sandwich.Startling, sinister and irresistible, Moira Fowley's award-winning debut collection about queer, female bodies at the end of the world unravels all of our darkest impulses and deepest fears.