All the Bad Apples

The stunning new novel about shocking family secrets, silenced female voices and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season . The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.' On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Mandy is seen leaping from a cliff. The family is heartbroken, but not surprised. The women of the Rys family have always been troubled - 'bad apples', their father calls them - and Mandy is the baddest of them all. But then Deena starts to receive the letters. Letters from Mandy, claiming that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions, but a curse, handed down to the Rys women through the generations. Mandy has gone in search of the curse's roots, and now Deena must begin a desperate cross-country hunt for her sister, guided only by the letters that mysteriously appear in each new place. What Deena finds will heal their family's rotten past - or rip it apart forever.

Product details

• Authors: Moira Fowley-Doyle, Fowley-Doyle Moira
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780241333969
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33396-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; 20th Century, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Of specific Lesbian interest, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / General, Ireland, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Of specific Gay interest, Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBTQ+, 1845 to c 1852 (period of the Great Irish Famine)