Moira Fowley-Doyle

One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. It starts with simple items like hair clips and jewellery, but soon it’s clear that Rose has lost something bigger; something she won’t talk about. Then Olive meets three wild, mysterious strangers: Ivy, Hazel and Rowan. Like Rose, they’re mourning losses - and holding tight to secrets. When they discover the ancient spellbook, full of hand-inked charms to conjure back lost things, they realise it might be their chance to set everything right. Unless it’s leading them towards secrets that were never meant to be found . . .

Spellbook of the Lost and Found

The stunning new novel about shocking family secrets, silenced female voices and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season. The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.' On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled - 'bad apples', their father calls them - and Mandy is the baddest of them all. But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.

All the Bad Apples

"¿Qué dejarás ir? ¿Qué no estás dispuesto a perder?" Una tormentosa noche de verano, Olive y su mejor amiga, Rose, comienzan a perder cosas. Al inicio se trata de objetos sin importancia, pero pronto se darán cuenta de que Rose ha perdido algo mucho más íntimo, algo de lo que no está dispuesta a hablar; y Olive percibe a su mejor amiga cada vez más distante. Más tarde comienzan aparecer por el pueblo las seductoras páginas del diario escrito por una chica llamada Laurel, y Olive se encuentra con tres misteriosos desconocidos: Ivy, Hazel y su hermano gemelo, Rowan. Cuando el nuevo grupo de amigos descubre un misterioso libro rojo, todo cambia. Sus desgastadas páginas están llenas de hechizos para conjurar todo aquello que se ha perdido. Y ellos piensan que podría ser su oportunidad de encontrar lo que cada uno necesita. A menos que haya cosas que nunca tendrían que ser encontradas...

El libro de hechizos de lo perdido y lo encontrado

"An astonishingly potent offering to women who break the mold" (Booklist) about silenced female voices, family secrets, and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season. On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled--"bad apples," their father calls them--and Mandy is the baddest of them all. But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.

"Fantasmas, secretos y mucha magia abundan en este debut literario, el conmovedor retrato de una familia desmembrada que busca el camino a su reconstrucción con amor y valentía. Una poderosa novela de un emocionante nuevo talento." Kirkus Reviews Cara y su familia tienen una rutina poco común. Cada año, de forma tanto inexplicable como inamovible, ellos se ven envueltos en alguna clase de accidente. Algunos años sólo deja secuelas leves, como rasguños y cortes, otros, esta repetición llega con mayor fuerza, como la vez en que el padre de Cara murió. Y todo parece indicar que este año, cuando ella, su exhermanastro Sam y su mejor amigo Brea cumplen 17, será malo. Pero no por las razones que ellos imaginan. Éste es el año en que Cara quedará irremediablemente enamorada. Éste es el año en que Cara experimentará por primera vez los dolorosos secretos en torno a la vida adulta. Éste es el año en que Cara descubrirá que no todos los golpes son palpables: detrás de cada moretón y contusión hay un oscuro secreto familiar escondido hace mucho tiempo.

La temporada de los accidentes

Fiecare secret e un accident care așteaptă să se întâmple E sezonul accidentelor, în fiecare an în aceeaşi perioadă. Se rup oase, se sfâşie pielea, încep să apară vânătăi. Sezonul accidentelor a făcut dintotdeauna parte din viaţa Carei, o adolescentă în vârstă de şaptesprezece ani: o lună a tragediilor şi rănilor misterioase, care aruncă o umbră constantă asupra Carei şi a familiei sale. Anul acesta, în sezonul accidentelor nu se va lăsa doar cu oase rupte. Pentru că acum Cara începe să şi pună o serie de întrebări – şi toate secretele familiei sale vor ieşi la iveală. Ameţitor, devastator, întunecat şi intens – sezonul accidentelor a sosit. "Senzaționalul roman de debut al Moïrei Fowley Doyle îmbină planul temporal cu cel spiritual într-o realitate fără fisuri, cu un puternic impact emoţional... Această poveste profundă îi va fermeca deopotrivă pe adolescenţi şi adulţi." - School Library Journal "Fantome, secrete şi magie se împletesc în acest roman uluitor al autoarei irlandeze. Un portret impresionant al unei familii dezbinate, care încearcă să se reunească prin iubire şi curaj. Sezonul accidentelor e un roman puternic ce anunţă un talent aparte." - Kirkus Review

Sezonul accidentelor

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, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, 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?

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