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The Sin Eater

by Megan Campisi
Shiromi Arserio
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Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . .
'A dark and thrilling page-turner that turns a dystopian eye on the past in an unnervingly contemporary way' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room.
A Sin Eater's duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. Stained by these sins, she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.
Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. When she's arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.
It's a devastating sentence, but May's new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one then two of the Queen's courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors . . .
Can you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it?

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Publisher: Pan Macmillan Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781529019094
  • File size: 259336 KB
  • Release date: July 23, 2020
  • Duration: 09:00:16

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  • ISBN: 9781529019094
  • File size: 259369 KB
  • Release date: July 23, 2020
  • Duration: 09:05:12
  • Number of parts: 9

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Fantasy Fiction Historical Fiction

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Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . .
'A dark and thrilling page-turner that turns a dystopian eye on the past in an unnervingly contemporary way' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room.
A Sin Eater's duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. Stained by these sins, she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.
Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. When she's arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.
It's a devastating sentence, but May's new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one then two of the Queen's courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors . . .
Can you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it?

Expand title description text
Fantasy Fiction Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pan Macmillan
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781529019094
    File size: 259336 KB
    Release date: July 23, 2020
    Duration: 09:00:16

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781529019094
    File size: 259369 KB
    Release date: July 23, 2020
    Duration: 09:05:12
    Number of parts: 9

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English