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Dark Earth
Paperback Edition: 1
Isla has a secret: she has learned her fathers sophisticated sword-making skills at a time when even entering a forge is forbidden to women. Her sister, Blue, has a secret, too: at low tide on the night of each new moon, she visits the bones of the mud woman, drowned by the elders of her tribe who wanted to make a lesson of someone who wouldnt hold her tongue. When the local Seax overlord discovers Isla's secret there is nowhere for the sisters to hide, except across the water to the walled ghost city, Londinium.
Here Blue and Isla find sanctuary in an underworld community of squatters, emigrants, travellers and looters, led by the mysterious Crowther, living in an abandoned brothel and bathhouse. But trouble pursues them even into the haunted city.
Publisher : Fourth Estate
Pages : 352
Publication date : 2022-07-06
Subjects: Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Myth & Legend Told As Fiction, Historical Fiction