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The Accident Season

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552571302

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Accident Season

'A magical debut that you will devour' Guardian

'Stunning . . . I am still blown away. An exquisite story' Publishers Weekly

'Hands down the best book I've read this year' Melinda Salisbury

It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.

The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear.

But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?

A bewitching, dark and beautiful novel that will stay with you long after the final page.

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552571302

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • A magical debut that you will devour

    Guardian

  • Eerie and edgy, dark and intense . . . You'll read it in a single breathless sitting

    The Bookseller

  • Months after reading Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s stunning debut, I am still blown away . . . One of the best books I've read in years. An exquisite story – the kind to win awards, top bestseller lists, and become the obsession of book lovers everywhere

    Publishers Weekly

  • This astonishingly bold debut combines gritty reality with mystical, ghostly presences – and is beautifully written

    Daily Mail

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About the Author

Moira Fowley-Doyle

Moïra is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin where she writes magic realism, reads tarot cards and raises witch babies. Moïra's first novel, The Accident Season, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and received widespread critical acclaim. Her second, Spellbook of the Lost and Found, was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

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