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Jess Richards Livres

    Cette auteure explore les complexités des relations humaines et de la croissance personnelle à travers une prose à la fois brute et poétique. Son style se caractérise par une observation aiguë et une capacité à saisir les nuances subtiles de l'émotion. Ses œuvres abordent souvent les chemins de la découverte de soi et la quête d'identité dans un monde en mutation. L'auteure aborde l'écriture avec une passion inébranlable, son art découlant d'une profonde compréhension de l'expérience humaine.

    Birds and Ghosts
    City of Circles
    Cooking with Bones
    Snake Ropes

    • Snake Ropes

      • 343pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      3,9(74)Évaluer

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD ON AN ISLAND OFF THE EDGE OF THE MAP, BOYS ARE DISAPPEARING. The day the tall men come from the mainland to trade, Mary's little brother goes missing. She needs to find him. She needs to know a secret that no-one else can tell her. Jess Richards' stunning debut will show you crows who become statues and sisters who get tangled in each other's hair, keys that talk and ghosts who demand to be buried. She combines a page-turning narrative and a startlingly original voice with the creation and subversion of myths.

      Snake Ropes

    • Cooking with Bones

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,5(175)Évaluer

      My sister is a formwanderer: she is a mirror of want. Each person she meets sees what they want, when they look at her. And she changes for each pair of eyes.Two sisters, fleeing the city of Paradon, find their way to a village by the sea, where Old Kelp's cottage - and her recipe book - await them.Amber feels this is where she finally belongs, baking honey cakes each night for the villagers to collect in the morning, using a set of bone spoons that allow her to add truth, lust and confusion to her pies and puddings.Her little sister Maya is a formwanderer, engineered to reflect the wants of others. All her life she has been like a twin to Amber, but now Amber has changed her mind, and wants Maya to learn how to be herself.Kip, a child growing up amongst the songs and stories of the village, delivers Amber's ingredients. When an act of terrible violence stirs and sets free the secrets of a generation, only one of these three can reveal the truth...

      Cooking with Bones

    • City of Circles

      3,5(167)Évaluer

      A magical love story between two circus performers, for fans of Angela Carter and Erin Morgenstern by Costa-shortlisted author Jess Richards.

      City of Circles

    • Birds and Ghosts

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Exploring themes of grief and love, the narrative follows Jess Richards as she copes with the sudden loss of her father in Scotland. Three months after his passing, she embarks on a journey to Aotearoa New Zealand, where she navigates a new relationship. This poignant story contrasts her memory-filled past with her evolving present, highlighting the complexities of moving forward while honoring those we've lost.

      Birds and Ghosts