The Lie Tree has just won the 2015 Costa book of the year award, the first children’s book to sweep the overall prize since Philip Pullman in 2001. Read some of the most beautiful quotes from her novels here
True stories seldom have endings. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.” – Fly by Night
Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere.
‘Invisible,’ said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it.– The Lie Tree
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