The Grace Year [electronic resource]
Liggett, Kim2019
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A New York Times bestselling dark speculative feminist thriller in the vein of THE POWER and THE HANDMAID'S TALE. Optioned for film by Universal and Elizabeth Banks.The resistance starts here... No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden. We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilisation. But I don't feel powerful. I don't feel magical.Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a year. They must rid themselves of their dangerous magic before returning purified and ready to marry - if they're lucky.It is forbidden to speak of the grace year, but even so every girl knows that the coming year will change them - if they survive it...A critically acclaimed page-turning feminist dystopia about a young woman trapped in an oppressive society, fighting to take control of her own life.
Main title:
The Grace Year [electronic resource] / Liggett, Kim.
Author:
Liggett, Kim, authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Ebury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource424 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Ebury Publishing 2019 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 1.3 MB)
ISBN:
9781473571884
Language:
English
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BRN:
3323660
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