In the Shadow of Blackbirds
ages 12 and UP Young Adult fiction
■ ■ by C AT W I N T E R S
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Compelling new YA set in a tumultuous 1918 – part love story, part ghost story and part dark mystery
■■ Romance: Protagonist Mary Shelley Black (named after the author Mary Shelley) has an intense love affair that provides the connection for her later séances with the dead ■■ Evocative era: The wars, epidemics, fads and scientific breakthroughs of the WWI era are still compelling today, as proven by the success of Downton Abbey ■■ Visually arresting: The period spirit photography included in the book lends an air of authority and strange beauty
s pecifications 10 black-and-white photographs 304 pages 8¼ × 5½" (210 × 140mm) Hardback with jacket RIGHTS: World PUB MONTH: April ISBN 978-1-4197-0530-4 ISBN 978-1-4197-0530-4 £9.99
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In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches
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as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never
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believed in ghosts. During her bleakest moment, however, she’s forced to rethink her entire way of
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looking at life and death, for her first love – a boy who died in battle – returns in spirit form. But what
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does he want from her? Featuring haunting archival early-twentieth-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set in a past that is eerily like our own time.
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Cat Winters is the creator of suburbanvampire.blogspot.com, and she runs corsetsandcutlasses.wordpress.com, a group blog featuring authors of YA historical fiction.
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