![]() Things just get weirder for Triss because even she has to admit that something isn’t quite right. “It’s fake! Can’t any of you tell the difference?” ![]() “She’s pretending!” she screams, when she comes to Triss’s bedroom. Triss’s younger sister Penny, Pen for short, doesn’t seem all that thrilled with Triss’s recovery. ![]() You had a fever, so of course you feel rotten and a bit muddled.” Her mother comforts her, telling Triss that she’s “just been ill again, that’s all. I can tell you that the story follows 13-year-old Triss, who wakes up after falling into the Grimmer – a pond near the cottage where she is vacationing with her family. ![]() I am not much of a fantasy fan, you know – word building and that sort of thing, but I was totally enchanted by Hardinge’s story, which is as much about grief and loss, as it is a creepy story about…well, I can’t really tell you. I don’t think I have ever read a book quite like Frances Hardinge’s YA novel Cuckoo Song. ![]()
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