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The Accident Season
- Author
- Moira Fowley-Doyle
- Narrator
- Colby Minifie
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 16 June 2016
- Run Time
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.
The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear.
But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?
Critics Review
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A magical debut that you will devour
Guardian
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Eerie and edgy, dark and intense . . . You'll read it in a single breathless sitting
The Bookseller
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Months after reading Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s stunning debut, I am still blown away . . . One of the best books I've read in years. An exquisite story – the kind to win awards, top bestseller lists, and become the obsession of book lovers everywhere
Publishers Weekly
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This astonishingly bold debut combines gritty reality with mystical, ghostly presences – and is beautifully written
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The Accident Season is brilliant
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Compelling . . . a dark teen romance with a spooky vibe
The Times
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Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author's astonishing debut . . . A powerful novel from an exciting new talent
Kirkus
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I can’t call it anything but fantastic . . . There actually isn’t a thing about it that I would change. Eerie, mysterious, magical
Books for Birds Blog
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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 Tucholke, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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Details
- Author
- Moira Fowley-Doyle
- Narrator
- Colby Minifie
- Duration
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 June 2016
- ISBN
- 9781448198122
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, or other scary supernatural stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Synopsis
It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear.But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?
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