The Accident Season - Softcover

Fowley-doyle, Moïra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014751732X ISBN 13: 9780147517326

Publisher: Speak, 2016

Synopsis

For fans of We Were Liars and The Ocean at the End of the Lane comes a haunting magically realistic debut about a family caught between a violent history, a taboo romance, and the mysteries lurking in their own backyard.

Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it's bad, and some years it's just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season--when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17--is going to be a bad one. Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical: There's a long-hidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she'll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she'll uncover the dark origins of the accident season--whether she's ready or not.

* "Fowley-Doyle's stunning debut novel weaves the temporal and the spiritual into a seamless reality, rich in emotional impact . . . This thought-provoking narrative will cast its spell over older teens and adults alike."--School Library Journal, starred review

* "Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author's astonishing debut . . . a moving portrait of a fractured family, knitting itself back together with courage and love. A powerful novel from an exciting new talent."--Kirkus, starred review

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Review:

* "Fowley-Doyle's stunning debut novel weaves the temporal and the spiritual into a seamless reality, rich in emotional impact. Devastating loss and abuse are balanced by romance, teen hijinks, and spine-tingling discoveries . . . This thought-provoking narrative will cast its spell over older teens and adults alike."--School Library Journal, starred review

* "Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author's astonishing debut . . . a moving portrait of a fractured family, knitting itself back together with courage and love. A powerful novel from an exciting new talent."--Kirkus, starred review

"Haunting"--Entertainment Weekly

"Entirely unique."--Bustle.com

"Amazing."--Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author

"Atmospheric and magical."--VOYA

"Sensuous, eerie, lyrical . . . Fowley-Doyle's The Accident Season reads like a poem. The mystery is intriguing, the writing is gorgeous, and the characters are vivid. A lovely debut."--April Tulcholke, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

"Readers will be swept away by Fowley-Doyle's lyrical writing andentrancing premise in this tale of forbidden love and magic."--Booklist

"A lyrical and sometimes chilling exploration of the ways in which we manipulate memories to fall in line with our present narrative--the lies we tell ourselves to keep our brains safe and happy. Cara's narration brilliantly, sometimes brutally conveys the unraveling of both Cara and her family . . . and the bittersweet ending will haunt readers as much it does Cara."--BCCB

Book Description:

A bewitching, dark and beautiful debut novel about a girl living in the shadow of a mysterious curse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Speak
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 014751732X
• ISBN 13: 9780147517326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 291