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Only May

Carol Lovekin

Publisher: Honno Press

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Summary

A young woman haunted by ghosts, magic and long-kept family secrets in a new novel from the author of the Wales Book of the Year 2021 shortlisted, WILD SPINNING GIRLS.
I give you fair warning, if you're planning on lying to me, don't look me in the eye.

It's May's 17th birthday – making the air tingle with a tension she doesn't fully understand. But she knows her mother and her aunt are being evasive; secrets are being kept.Like her grandmother before her, May has her own magic: the bees whisper to her as they hover in the garden... the ghosts chatter in the graveyard. And she can't be fooled by a lie. She becomes determind to find out what is being kept from her. But when May starts to uncover her own story, she threatens to bring her mother and aunt's carefully constructed family to the edge of destruction...
Available since: 05/18/2022.
Print length: 320 pages.

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