The Accident Season
Aug 2015 · Sold by Penguin
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Like clock-work, misfortune befalls a small town, but this year a young teenager and her friends are going to uncover long-buried family secrets to reveal the truth.
“Beautifully crafted and atmospheric, the magic realism of this book gradually peels away to expose secrets.”—Booklist
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown . . . we stay alive.
Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably accident-prone. Some years it’s bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it’s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. They know what they need to do—stock up on bandages and painkillers, cover sharp table edges with padding, banish knives to locked drawers, switch off electrical items. They buckle up, they batten down.
But this accident season—when Cara; her ex-stepbrother, Sam; and her best friend, Bea, are seventeen—none of that will make a difference.
Because Cara is starting to ask questions. And the answers were never meant to be found.
“Beautifully crafted and atmospheric, the magic realism of this book gradually peels away to expose secrets.”—Booklist
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown . . . we stay alive.
Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably accident-prone. Some years it’s bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it’s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. They know what they need to do—stock up on bandages and painkillers, cover sharp table edges with padding, banish knives to locked drawers, switch off electrical items. They buckle up, they batten down.
But this accident season—when Cara; her ex-stepbrother, Sam; and her best friend, Bea, are seventeen—none of that will make a difference.
Because Cara is starting to ask questions. And the answers were never meant to be found.
Like clock-work, misfortune befalls a small town, but this year a young teenager and her friends are going to uncover long-buried family secrets to reveal the truth.
“Beautifully crafted and atmospheric, the magic realism of this book gradually peels away to expose secrets.”—Booklist
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I love the book it is amazing
About the author
Moïra Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin with her husband, their young daughters, and their old cat. Moïra's French half likes red wine and dark books in which everybody dies. Her Irish half likes tea and happy endings. Moïra started a PhD on vampires in young adult fiction before concentrating on writing young adult fiction with no vampires in it whatsoever. She wrote her first novel at the age of eight, when she was told that if she wrote a story about spiders she wouldn't be afraid of them anymore. Moïra is still afraid of spiders, but has never stopped writing stories. The Accident Season is her debut novel.
Moïra Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin with her husband, their young daughters, and their old cat. Moïra's French half likes red wine and dark books in which everybody dies. Her Irish half likes tea and happy endings. Moïra started a PhD on vampires in young adult ficti...
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