Bücher von Frances Hardinge

From Frances Hardinge, the overall Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, comes her latest compelling adventure, Unraveller

A richly atmospheric, compelling gothic fairytale about grief, kindness and fulfilling ones destiny a striking first collaboration between two bestselling, multi-award-winning talents.

Makepiece schreit oft in ihren Albträumen. Etwas - jemand - ergreift dann Besitz von ihr. Und auch wenn sie am Tag ihre Gedankensoldaten zum Schutz aufstellt - Sterbende begehren Einlass in ihren Kopf und Körper. Nur, wie viele verschiedeneWesen vertragen sich in einem Körper? Und dazu noch ein so großes, wildes: ein geschundener Tanzbär.

Es geht um Fossilien und Fälschung, Glauben und Wissenschaft und - Mord. Mittendrin steht die 14-jährige Faith, die das Unheimliche aufklären und als Mädchen forschen will.

The story of a friendship as deep and dangerous as the ocean by the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree.

The stunning story of a young girl's quest to shape her own destiny from the author of The Lie Tree, winner of the Costa Prize 2015.

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. The girl realizes that she is good at lying and that the tree might hold the key to her father's murder, so she begins to spread untruths far and wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter . . .