About this item
Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents -- people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive. Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.
About the Author
I like mucking about with words. I live near a sea and it keeps creeping into things I write and wrinkling the pages and changing the word order and that kind of thing.
Sneaky sea.
Once, I tried to catch a piece of it a bucket and hold it to ransom but things kept crawling out at night. Deep sea things that flopped around and made the house stink. In the end I had to pour the stolen ocean back and mop the floors with bleach.
We have an understanding now, the sea and me. She stirs her fingers in the words, and I leave roses in the sand.
