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The deathless girls / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bellatrix, 2019.Description: 304 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781510106741 (hbk.) :
  • 9781510106918 (pbk.) :
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • F HAR 23
Summary: Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula. They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn't understand. But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 26/09/2023 R16771J0499

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula. They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn't understand. But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls as gifts. They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate.

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