A journey to the door of the Seventh Silence. Jean's quest to find her becomes a personal journey. But is she hiding or helping? Is she alive or dead? In point of fact is Jean alive or dead? It's a question that the enigmatic Moonster might answer. There are endless dusty corridors, back ways, cellars and chimney flues, hidden rooms, and garrets and just occasionally you might find a pupil running for his life. Classrooms where paper planes carry passengers, statues cry and board games cost your life, books ask you questions. Behind the stockroom door there are other classrooms. Jean is about to discover that his school is more foreign than he could possibly imagine. There are darker things that would gladly fill them. Unluckily for Jean there are worse things than bullies: There are vacant black holes in the corners of his mind. Nobody likes Jean because he is half French. Father is dying and mother has sent him to an English school.
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Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. "Fast-paced.Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." - The Washington Post "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." -NPR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing-and one of the most decorated journalists of our time-twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue But when he smiled.and when he kissed her.the rest of the world simply fell away. Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. It is my hope that after a suitable period of time, we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife.Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect wasn't. To Sir Phillip, With Love: The 2nd Epilogue (Bridgertons 5.5) by Julia Quinn(Goodreads Author) 3. I am writing to invite you to visit me here at Romney Hall. This is Eloise's story.My dear Miss Bridgerton,We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. The fifth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. |