The book eaters
Dean, Sunyi2022
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Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valour and adventure, and Devon-like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds.
Main title:
The book eaters / Sunyi Dean.
Author:
Dean, Sunyi, author
Imprint:
London : HarperVoyager, 2022.©2022
Collation:
298 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families." --Back cover.
ISBN:
97800084794599780008479459
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
528172
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Fantasy | DEAN | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - Fantasy | DEAN | Available |