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The Turnaway Girls
The Turnaway Girls | Hayley Chewins
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Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters — and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea. On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that music into gold. Making shimmer, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can’t make shimmer. She would rather sing than stay silent. When a Master who doesn’t act like a Master comes to the skydoor, it’s a chance for Delphernia to leave the cloister. Outside the stone dome, the sea breathes like a wild beast, the sky watches with stars like eyes, and even the gardens have claws. Outside, secrets fall silent in halls without sound. And outside, Delphernia is caught — between the island’s sinister Custodian and its mysterious Childer-Queen. Between a poem-speaking prince and a girl who feels like freedom. And in a debut that glimmers with hope and beauty, freedom — to sing, to change, to live — is precisely what’s at stake.
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Vee_Bookish
The Turnaway Girls | Hayley Chewins
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Mehso-so

Shocking in it's violence and a little difficult to keep up with, this speculative children's novel probably should be labelled YA.

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ScorpioBookDreams
The Turnaway Girls | Hayley Chewins
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Halfway through this one. Absolutely beautiful writing but definitely at the top end of the MG age bracket.

aeeklund That is an absolutely STUNNING cover. 6y
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Missusb
The Turnaway Girls | Hayley Chewins
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Another #marchrso2019 #preview fantasy novel for younger readers I managed to read while #roadtrippin exquisite writing and language.

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