Black Spring
Alison Croggon
Candlewick Press, August 27th 2013
Candlewick Press, August 27th 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6009-3
ARC copy provided by Candlewick
In the rough northern territories, the rule of vendetta is
the law, and the king and wizards share power over the peasants. When a southern noble comes to stay to escape
scandal and goes to greet his landlord, he unwittingly stumbles
into a slightly more magical adaptation of Wuthering Heights. His housekeeper reveals that she once worked
in the household of Lina, a young witch.
Witches are marked for death by wizards under the laws of the north, but she is
protected to by the noble status of her father, who is punished when a silent,
stoic young boy is sent to be his ward.
Lina and the ward develop a tempestuous, dangerously passionate and
desperate link in childhood that is tested when the bottom falls out and Lina’s
father passes away, setting them on a course that may destroy their own lives
and the lives of those of around them.
Told alternatively through the housekeeper, Lina’s journal, and the
southern noble, Black Spring is a gothic, dark read for those who love
Heathcliff and Catherine.
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