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Informationen zum Autor Sue Ransom! the author of Small Blue Thing! Perfectly Reflected! Scattering Like Light! and The Beneath is a senior headhunter! but on the way to work and in the evenings she's a writer: she wrote Small Blue Thing! her debut novel! as a birthday present for her daughter! and she composed it mostly on her BlackBerry. Serendipity led her to Nosy Crow! and she's now busy thinking up her next project. She lives with her husband and two teenage children in Surrey. Klappentext Alex doesn't know who to believe, Callum or Catherine. One of them truly cares for her. One of them wants to prey on her memories. Both of them drowned. After her school exams, Alex finds an extraordinary bracelet set with a mysterious blue stone buried in the Thames mud. She discovers that she can use it to communicate with the river's dead. Condemned to a half-life of misery, they must steal the happiness of the living to exist. Callum - desperate, lonely and breathtakingly good-looking - is one of them. Alex falls deeply in love. And Callum loves her. Doesn't he?The stone was beautiful, a deep azure blue with flecks of gold and pinks and reds, all glinting in the sun. I rubbed at the band, shifting some of the ancient filth and a dull silver colour appeared. Even through the dirt I could see the craftsmanship. Why would someone tie something so stunning to a rock and throw it in the river? Zusammenfassung When 17 year-old Alex rescues a swan caught on a wire stuck deep in the Thames mud, she finds an extraordinary bracelet. Through its disturbing and compelling powers, she meets Callum, a soul locked in a half-life of sadness and mystery following a terrible accident, and his persuasive and sinister sister, Catherine. As Alex and Callum grow closer despite the enormous obstacles to their love, the dangers mount until Alex must risk everything to save her best friend and Callum must risk everything to save Alex.
