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About Mothernight
Seventeen-year-old Leila Hartley is a boarder at an exclusive girls' school in Kent. She hasn't been home to see her family in years. Leila is both beautiful and prodigiously clever; she consumes endless Victorian novels and reads her classics texts fluently in their original languages. She keeps everyone, teachers and pupils alike, at a distance, until a new girl called Olivia Rudham arrives, and the two become room-mates, and then best friends. As the months go by, their relationship grows more claustrophobic and intense, and Olivia begins to realise that Leila may be harbouring a secret about her past. Why hasn't she been home in so long? Why won't she talk about her family? When Leila is invited by her father to spend the summer with him for the first time in almost a decade, Olivia goes with her, and meets Katherine, Leila's stepmother, who blames Leila for something which happened to her first child. Somewhere in the old farmhouse where Leila grew up is the truth about what took place 9 years earlier, on the winter solstice - known in Norse mythology as Mothernight.
About Sarah Stovell
Sarah was born in October 1977. She grew up in Kent and Oxfordshire, and went to Sussex University, where she studied English
Literature.
She had her first short story published by WH Smith when she was ten, and wrote her first novel at the age of twelve. Later,
in 1999, she was a finalist in the Vogue Talent Contest for Young Writers.
Sarah decided to commit to fiction writing after a course with the Arvon Foundation in 2003, which she followed with an MA
in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Mothernight became part of her MA project, although it was not finished for
another year.
Sarah now lives and writes in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She works as an antiquarian bookseller and part-time teacher of Creative
Writing.
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"I know it is early. And it isn't even out yet. But hell. I am already a fan...beautifully written...I loved it." Mockduck Blog
Book information
Price: £7.99
ISBN13: 9781905005802
Publication Date: 03/03/2008
Availability: Not Published Yet
Format: B Format Paperback
Category: General non-fiction
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