2022/089: Dark Earth -- Rebecca Stott

2022/089: Dark Earth -- Rebecca Stott

There is one last nightingale... the very last bird left on that wall. The rest of the plaster has cracked and fallen away... It is all going down into the dark earth, Isla thinks, remembering what Crowther had said about the marsh rising and the cities falling. It's going to take them all with it. But it hasn't taken the nightingale. Not yet. [loc. 3249]

Isla and Blue live on a nameless island in the Thames. The year is AD500 or thereabouts; the Romans ('Sun Kings') have abandoned Britain, and the ruins of their city are rumoured to be haunted. ( Read more... )