Spells for ForgettingAdrienne Young2022

Synopsis

A rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel.

Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She’d once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains her late mother’s tea shop and cares for her ailing father. But just as the island, rooted in folklore and tradition, begins to show signs of strange happenings, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that no one wants to remember.

August Salt knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night that changed everything. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises that span generations threatens to reveal the truth behind Lily’s death once and for all.

Evocative and compelling, Spells for Forgetting is a vivid exploration of lost love and the unraveling of a small town and its many secrets.

Titre original : Spells for Forgetting (2022)

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16.0

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4 éditions pour ce livre

2023 Editions Quercus

368 pages

12 septembre 2023

ISBN : 9781529425345

2022 Editions Delacorte Press

352 pages

27 septembre 2022

ISBN : 9780593358511

2022 Editions Quercus

346 pages

septembre 2022

ISBN : 9781529425307

2022 Editions Quercus

384 pages

ISBN : 9781529425352

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  • avatar willosip
    15 / 20 Le 30 Juillet 2024 à 17:47 willosip

    L'atmosphère est sûrement le plus gros point fort de ce roman. Ces pins anxiogènes, cette sève odorante, ces lectures de feuilles de thé, ces journées rythmées par les allers-venus du ferry... Il saura faire écho aux fans de Twin Peaks et de Salem. Quelques manquements à la logique et des passages longuets font néanmoins baisser ma note.

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