![]() And both novels explore the tensions between two communities forced to live side-by-side: in The Deathless Girls, the tension is between the Traveller and the Settled communities, two peoples who live in uneasy proximity in The Mercies, that tension existed between the Christian community and the Sami. That is, until I read her The Mercies last year and was blown away by the sense of place and privation that she created, as well as the sense of community.Īnd it is fascinating reading The Deathless Girls only a few months later because the two novels are very similar.īoth are set in a land that is distant, here Wallachia in Romania, and both are set in the past. I think I had stopped running the book club at school by the time The Island At The End of Everything came out. I remember really enjoying Kiran Millwood Hargraves’ The Girl of Ink and Stars – a novel which danced on the borders of fantasy, mythology, adventure and just a touch of politics – and I follow Hargraves on IG and Twitter where she is a really lovely warm presence, but for some reason I had not picked up anything else of her. ![]() They say the thirst for blood is like a madness – they must sate it. ‘And told me the Dragon had made his daughter a monster. ‘What did he say before you murdered him?’ ![]()
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