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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... Touching hims skin sends a judder right through me. Him drops the crate. We both jump back. Him turns and glares at me. I yell at him, 'My brother, give me him back! Him is only little – what use is him for you? Him is mine, the only ...
... Touching hims skin sends a judder right through me. Him drops the crate. We both jump back. Him turns and glares at me. I yell at him, 'My brother, give me him back! Him is only little – what use is him for you? Him is mine, the only ...
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... touch sends shivers all up my arm and I can't move my hand. Him pinches out my fingers. It's a big white shell what's in my palm, not a stone at all. Him lets go. 'You can't hurt me with that.' Hims voice is low and cold. A glimmer of ...
... touch sends shivers all up my arm and I can't move my hand. Him pinches out my fingers. It's a big white shell what's in my palm, not a stone at all. Him lets go. 'You can't hurt me with that.' Hims voice is low and cold. A glimmer of ...
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... have to ask every single one of them if them know where Barney is, I'll lose my voice and my legs'll. Barney's toys are faded, bleached and pale from missing hims touch. 'It's rice. From China,' one says, like that should mean. Mary.
... have to ask every single one of them if them know where Barney is, I'll lose my voice and my legs'll. Barney's toys are faded, bleached and pale from missing hims touch. 'It's rice. From China,' one says, like that should mean. Mary.
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