The Accident Season - Penguin Books

For fans of We Were Liars and The Ocean at the End of the Lane comes a haunting magically realistic debut about a family caught between a violent history, a taboo romance, and the mysteries lurking in their own backyard. Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accidentprone. Some years it s bad, and some years it s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident seasonwhen Cara, her exstepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17is going to be a bad one. Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical There s a longhidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she ll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she ll uncover the dark origins of the accident seasonwhether she s ready or not. * FowleyDoyle s stunning debut novel weaves the temporal and the spiritual into a seamless reality, rich in emotional impact . . . This thoughtprovoking narrative will cast its spell over older teens and adults alike.School Library Journal, starred review * Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author s astonishing debut . . . a moving portrait of a fractured family, knitting itself back together with courage and love. A powerful novel from an exciting new talent.Kirkus, starred review