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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... not be shut in the dark for long, it's just till them've gone.' The tall men dun move to speak to one another. Silent as shadows, everyone says, but when the tall men do speak, them pick the words what'll get what them most want.
I think the tall men must have one great huge boat what picks up all nine of the oar boats. Them keep it just over the edge of the horizon. For if them dun have a quicker way to get from the main land to here than just oars, ...
I get close enough to one of the tall men, grab hims wrist as him is picking up a crate of ropes, wearing black gloves. Hims cold wrist feels like him is dead though him is up and walking. Touching hims skin sends a judder right through ...
'Aye, Mary?' Him puts the compass back in hims pocket. 'I'm sorry about Barney.' I watch hims face. It dun change. Him picks at a hole in hims jumper. 'Aye,' him says, quiet. 'So am I.' Him gets up, stretches, cracks hims neck and goes.
Them dun take my brother, though that's what everyone'll say, but I know, because I looked. On the floor by the cupboard, there's a white shell what looks like something I should remember, so I pick it up. I grip hard on the shell.
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User Review - bongobash - LibraryThingIt took me longer than it would take me to read another book because of the slow start. I thought it could of been a very good story except questions weren't answered. I wanted to know more about the ... Read full review
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User Review - passion4reading - LibraryThingMary shares a cottage with her fisherman father and little brother Barney on a small island just off the edge of the map after the death of her mother. Traders from the mainland visit the island ... Read full review
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| Title | Snake Ropes: A Novel |
| Author | Jess Richards |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1443410160, 9781443410168 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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