Maria Turtschaninoff s deceptively simple, occasionally almost fairy tale-like prose is also a joy: the voice of Maresi (our first person narrator) always feels distinct and believable' Rebecca Hawkes, Telegraph 'A book full of courage. 'Dark, powerful and original.really stands out in a very crowded YA marketplace.Thrilling, suspenseful and gloriously feminist' The Bookseller 'Where YA fantasy can start to feel a little same-y, Maresi dark,occasionally harrowing, yet always readable stands out for its startling originality, and for the frightening plausibility of the dangerous world it creates. A story of friendship and survival, magic and wonder, beauty and terror, Maresi will grip you and hold you spellbound. And Maresi, haunted by her own nightmares, must confront her very deepest, darkest fears. Now the women and girls of the Red Abbey must use all their powers and ancient knowledge to combat the forces that wish to destroy them. And the men who hurt her will stop at nothing to find her. She has fled to the island to escape terrible danger and unimaginable cruelty. Then one day Jai tangled fair hair, clothes stiff with dirt, scars on her back arrives on a ship. But now Maresi is here, and she knows it is real. In a world where girls aren't allowed to learn or do as they please, an island inhabited solely by women sounded like a fantasy. Before then, she had only heard rumours of its existence in secret folk tales. Maresi came to the Red Abbey when she was thirteen, in the Hunger Winter.

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