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Seventeen-year-old Briony is caught in the age-old conflict between duty and desire. Her duty? To convince her fellow villagers not to drain their beloved swamp for the sake of a railroad, lest a beastie from within it unleash a killing cough on the village children, including Briony's beloved sister, Rose. Standing in her way is Eldric, the son of the railway man...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 7 Up—Born precisely at midnight, that eldritch hour between one day and the next, Briony has always been a bit fey. But it isn't until her twin sister, Rose, is hurt while they are swinging together and her stepmother is tragically crippled in a freak accident th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Ooze and muck and the clean muddy smell of life" suffuse Billingsley's long-awaited third work of fiction, which mingles "Tam Lin," "Lord Randall," and its own swampy folklore into an entirely original concoction—and which confirms, yet again, how aptly fairy tale expresses the emotional landscape of adolescence. And more: how exceptionally well Billingsley uses it to do so. Narrator Briony Larkin is a self-proclaimed witch. She believes that out of childish jealousy of the attention Stepmother lavished on her twin siste...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Narrator Briony, a self-proclaimed witch, believes that her own childish jealousy led to her twin sister's brain damage. When Eldric c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More