Philip Pullman

Sixteen-year-old Ginny’s life is secure. Her mother is dead, but she’s inherited her outstanding artistic talent, and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny’s world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. And Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she’s never known . . .

The Broken Bridge

Ellie 

“Free to do anything. Like me. I don’t know where I belong, so I’m free. No one’s got a hold on me.”

“The lady was singing, and the song thrilled through the clouds and the sheets and filled the immense beaming sky, and Ginny felt that she was so light that she, too, could swing up and be blown along in the wild blue splendor;”

““You can’t go back,” Stuart said. “You can only go forward. You can’t forget, either. You have to use everything you know.””

“Even better than knowing who you were was knowing what you had to do.”

“When you try to be friendly you expose yourself to so many embarrassments.”

“Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.”

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