A Face Like Glass

A new novel from a star of English YA prose.

When a person dies, their soul searches for a new place to live. Some people are an ideal vessel for the dead shadows.

Twelve-year-old Makepeace has been haunted by shadows for as long as she can remember. They came to her in nightmarish dreams, touched her skin with their ice-cold fingers, whispered words she could barely make out. One day Makepeace let a shadow in…

The shadow of a wild, savage, unbreakable creature took over her mind and body. The shadow became a curse—and also the only protection for a lonely girl in the Grivehayes estate—a world of wealth, cruelty, and dark secrets. While the estate is torn apart by the struggle for power, and the country by the struggle for the crown, Makepeace’s soul fights the beast. But sometimes life under people’s control is more terrifying than death under the control of shadows…

Shortlisted for the “Best Book of 2017” by Waterstones.

Time- and age-less novels—children and adults read them. — Guardian