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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... round and looks up at me . Hims brown eyes have my reflection inside . I smile at him , stroke the curls on the back of hims head where them need a wash . I say , ' Sorry Barney . I've got to get you hid , them're coming . ' Him grips ...
... round and looks up at me . Hims brown eyes have my reflection inside . I smile at him , stroke the curls on the back of hims head where them need a wash . I say , ' Sorry Barney . I've got to get you hid , them're coming . ' Him grips ...
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... round round round looking for us , we doing hidings in the sky . Them looks up high and sees us . Them pulls fishing net out thems hair . Them doing chasings after us . Me and you , Mary , we got our own flutterbee wings , real ones ...
... round round round looking for us , we doing hidings in the sky . Them looks up high and sees us . Them pulls fishing net out thems hair . Them doing chasings after us . Me and you , Mary , we got our own flutterbee wings , real ones ...
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... round yours later , Martyn's fixing up our new cottage at Wreckers Shore . Him'll be gone all day . ' ' You're moving Annie ? ' She turns round and smiles . ' Aye , but it's lovely . More space all round it . We'll grow tatties and ...
... round yours later , Martyn's fixing up our new cottage at Wreckers Shore . Him'll be gone all day . ' ' You're moving Annie ? ' She turns round and smiles . ' Aye , but it's lovely . More space all round it . We'll grow tatties and ...
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... round labels what say kiwi , and the picture of a fat bird . Dun think them're eggs of any kind , but . I've still got some of these from last time , and them've just wrinkled up and stank the cottage out with the smell of piss ...
... round labels what say kiwi , and the picture of a fat bird . Dun think them're eggs of any kind , but . I've still got some of these from last time , and them've just wrinkled up and stank the cottage out with the smell of piss ...
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... round and a barn owl is coming right at me . Usually barn owls fly silent , but this one is blustering , buffeting like it's learning how to fly . Only as it gets closer I see its face . A woman's face . Round like the moon , but ...
... round and a barn owl is coming right at me . Usually barn owls fly silent , but this one is blustering , buffeting like it's learning how to fly . Only as it gets closer I see its face . A woman's face . Round like the moon , but ...
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