2023/076: Ghostbird — Carol Lovekin

2023/076: Ghostbird — Carol Lovekin

The undergrowth began to draw in the light, making the air feel heavy. The sense of being observed deepened: something or someone wanted to be noticed. Nothing felt familiar. [loc. 334]

Cadi lives in a Welsh village with her mother Violet and her aunt Lili. In the village, in August, it rains every day. In the village, nobody will tell Cadi about her dead father or her dead sister. ('Who knew whether or not Lilwen Hopkins, daughter of a witch woman, hadn’t bound their mouths with threads of silence?') But her sister's coming to haunt her, owls and flowers, and Cadi can't stay away from the lake at the end of the lane.

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