Description
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.
The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak.
'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. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.'
When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out.
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. 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 . . .
'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.
Cuckoo Song is a breathtakingly dark and twisted tale from the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge.
About the Author
Frances Hardinge spent a large part of her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. However, a few years later a persistent friend finally managed to bully Frances into sending a few chapters of Fly By Night, her first children's novel, to a publisher. Macmillan made her an immediate offer. The book went on to publish to huge critical acclaim and win the Branford Boase First Novel Award. She has since written many highly acclaimed children's novels, including Fly By Night's sequel Twilight Robbery, as well as the Carnegie-shortlisted Cuckoo Song and the Costa Book of the Year winner, The Lie Tree.
Reviews
A deliciously sinister read full of mayhem and menace. Frances Hardinge is a very powerful and poetic writer - weaving a very dark and magical tale to entrance and enthral her readers. * Guardian *
An enticing mystery from the first page . . . The story, full of tension and danger, explores grief, revenge and forgiveness as well as misguided parenting and sibling rivalry. * Sunday Times *
Awards
Winner of British Fantasy Awards Best Fantasy Novel 2015 (UK). Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015 (UK) and BSFA Award for Best Novel 2015 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781509868155
Author Frances Hardinge
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 296g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 29mm
