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"There." Grace pointed towards the moor and I saw it. There was a shape in the dark. We were being watched. Emlynn used to be able to ignore her strange ability to sense the Dead. Since the accident which killed her mother, it's taking over her life. Things only get worse when her father moves the family to a remote Yorkshire vicarage, which stands at the centre of a centuries-old curse that feeds on the lives of young girls. A pattern about to repeat itself once more... When her older show more sister, Grace, gets involved with the local bad boy, Emlynn knows he is connected to the curse. If she cannot find the strength to stop running from her gift, Emlynn stands to lose everything she has left. Only the Dead have the answers she needs. If she can bring herself to speak to them... show lessTags
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J.A. Ironside is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Original publication date
- 2015-04
- People/Characters
- Emlynn Matthews; Amy Matthews; Grace Matthews; James Matthews (Reverend); Haze; Helen (show all 24); Gladdie; Ern; Kate Weston; Cynthia Holden; Miss Greer; Mrs. Edwards; Mary Cranford; Ciarán O'Connor; Clayton Lynfield; Hardiman; John; Ada; Sue; Mr Roberts; June Matthews; Evelyn Lynfield; Mr Weston; Nick Alden
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- Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England
- Epigraph
- “If I were in Heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable…I dreamt once that I was there…heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry tha... (show all)t they flung me out into the middle of the heath…where I woke sobbing for joy.”
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. - Dedication
- For Sarah and For Ella,
My sisters.
And For Allan:
Sine qua non. - First words
- I wasn't asleep, not really. I just wished I was.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For now I'd enjoy the moment. I'd savour the memory of that kiss. And I would live with everything I had in me, because I belonged to the earth too.
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