'They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted . . . the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked perfect, like Snow White.'Ruby and her older sister, Jinn, are on their own, just about making ends meet. Jinn is beautiful, with glittering blonde hair, and makes it her business to look after Ruby. They are horrified by, but try to ignore, the local newspaper stories of prostitutes who are murdered, their bodies eventually discovered underwater. Then the no-good Nathan Baird turns up on the scene - again - and Jinn starts to change and no longer has time to look after Ruby. And it seems to Ruby that Jinn herself needs looking after. Her beautiful glittering hair starts to lose its shine. And then Jinn disappears.A deeply moving, chilling, and incredibly powerful thriller that celebrates the love two sisters have for each other and mourns the events beyond their control that will conspire to drive them apart.
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A powerful, gritty contemporary novel about Ruby and her beautiful older sister Jinn who are both drawn into a tragedy not of their making, from a Carnegie-Medal-nominated author
Praise for Crossing the Line:‘An uncompromising exploration of the ruthless Darwinian world of teenagers. It's tough, rough-textured and assured, cynical where it needs to be, and demands respect'
A powerful, gritty contemporary novel about Ruby and her beautiful older sister Jinn who are both drawn into a tragedy not of their making, from a Carnegie-Medal-nominated author
A powerfully told and contemporary novel, from the acclaimed author of the debut Crossing the Line

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780747599920
Publisert
2011-04-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Vekt
230 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
Y, 03
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Biographical note

This is Gillian Philip's second novel for Bloomsbury, her first being Crossing the Line, which was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her first YA novel Bad Faith, was published by a small Scottish publishers. Gillian Philip lives in Elgin in the north of Scotland.