The Guardian writes: ".a wonderful, resonant narrative whose subtlety and insight will challenge, entertain and enchant." Discovering that her relatives keep her alive purely as a spare vessel for the spirits, she flees to Oxford and becomes entangled in the conflict of the war herself.Ī Skinful of Shadows received positive reviews from critics. The elders at Grizehayes store the spirits of their notable deceased family members inside living vessels. Makepeace has the inherited trait that allows her to store the spirits of recently deceased people or animals inside herself, like the rest of her father's family. When her mother dies in a riot between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, she is sent to live with her deceased father's relatives in Grizehayes, a fictional fortress in the north of England. Synopsis ĭuring the First English Civil War, Makepeace lives with her mother in a Puritan village close to London.
The book was received positively by critics and was short-listed for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017. It is set during the First English Civil War, and in particular the Siege of Oxford. Her seventh novel, it revolves around Makepeace Felmotte, a girl with the inherited ability to see and absorb ghosts.
Nominated for Waterstones Book of the Year 2017.Ī Skinful of Shadows is a 2017 children's or young adults' paranormal historical fiction novel by Frances Hardinge. Children's or young adult fiction, Paranormal, Historical fiction
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