2022/085: Embertide -- Liz Williams

2022/085: Embertide -- Liz Williams

Outside, the rain had passed and it was very still and starlit; Bee looked up and there was Orion, striding high in the southern sky with the blue fire of Sirius at his heels. There was a small, hard moon, bitterly white. [loc. 2314]

I knew I was in good hands when I opened Embertide to find that Part One is entitled 'Our Thumping Hearts Keep the Ravens In', a quotation from Kate Bush's song 'Lionheart'. (Part Two is 'Selling England by the Pound'.)( Read more... )