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The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season.

´Exquisite . . . This is a book to hold tightly to your chest´ Irish Times

´Lyrical . . . Compelling´ Guardian

´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.

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Exquisite . . . It´s a gorgeous set-up for a magical realist dive into today´s teenagers confronting the hideous heritage of this country. This is a book to hold tightly to your chest Irish Times

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Fowley-Doyle, Moira
Mo‹ra is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin where she writes magic realism, reads tarot cards and raises witch babies. Mo‹ra´s first novel, The Accident Season, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children´s Book Prize and received widespread critical acclaim. Her second, Spellbook of the Lost and Found, was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.

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