![]() Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls. In a quest to find the truth she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family – before it's too late. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. ![]() She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. It won the 2015 Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel, 1 and was short-listed for the 2015 Carnegie Medal. She is insatiably hungry her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, is a children's or young adults' fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published on by Macmillan in the UK, and by Abrams Amulet in the USA. When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.' 'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. ![]() Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. ![]() The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. ![]() Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, is a fantastically eerie and beautifully written novel, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. ![]()
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