Snake Ropes: A NovelSet on an isolated island off the Scottish coast, in a community run by women who are in awe of a mysterious structure called the Thrashing House, the novel is narrated by two teenage girls in very different circumstances. Mary is doing her best to protect her younger brother, Barney, as the island’s sons are mysteriously disappearing. Morgan is scheming to escape the prison her parents have made of their home. The two girls unite, each on a desperate mission in which secrets will be revealed and lives changed forever. |
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... Light a candle and check in the shadows. Nothing. I slump down on the floor. Barney's mine. Him can't be took like the others. Him is too young. If Mam were still alive she'd be shouting about this. She shouted so often, even when Da ...
... Light a candle and check in the shadows. Nothing. I slump down on the floor. Barney's mine. Him can't be took like the others. Him is too young. If Mam were still alive she'd be shouting about this. She shouted so often, even when Da ...
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... light gets in. I sit up slow. Him looks like someone I dun even know. Da folds hims arms. 'You're through the worst of it. I need to go fishing so we can eat – the tall men'll be coming back in a week or so. Is tha' all right, but ...
... light gets in. I sit up slow. Him looks like someone I dun even know. Da folds hims arms. 'You're through the worst of it. I need to go fishing so we can eat – the tall men'll be coming back in a week or so. Is tha' all right, but ...
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... hear a dreaming place of Barney's. Not the blank dark place in the fever – Barney's dream is all light and the wind blows us up in the sky like butterflies. Barney's dream is in hims voice: In this place you an' me dun have to be.
... hear a dreaming place of Barney's. Not the blank dark place in the fever – Barney's dream is all light and the wind blows us up in the sky like butterflies. Barney's dream is in hims voice: In this place you an' me dun have to be.
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