The Midnight Dress
by Karen Foxlee
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Pub Date Oct 08 2013 | Archive Date Oct 08 2013
Random House Children's | Alfred A. Knopf BFYR
Description
A hauntingly beautiful novel about a murdered girl and a hand-stitched dress from the author of The Anatomy of Wings.
Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade. It's better not to get too attached when Rose and her father live on the road, driving their caravan from one place to the next whenever her dad gets itchy feet. But Rose can't resist the mysterious charms of the town or the popular girl, try as she might.
Pearl convinces Rose to visit Edie Baker, once a renowned dressmaker, now a rumored witch. Together Rose and Edie hand-stitch an unforgettable dress of midnight blue for Rose to wear at the Harvest Festival—a dress that will have long-lasting consequences on life in Leonora, a dress that will seal the fate of one of the girls. Karen Foxlee's breathtaking novel weaves friendship, magic, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and distinctly original.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KAREN FOXLEE is the author of The Anatomy of Wings, winner of the Commonweath Writer's Prize and a Parents' Choice Gold Winner. She lives in Gympie, Australia.
Advance Praise
Praise for The Anatomy of Wings:
"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished, just to stay near it. The Anatomy of Wings is one of those books."
—Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief
"A shining debut novel . . . With heart-stopping accuracy and sly symbolism, Foxlee captures the small ways that humans reveal themselves [and] the mysterious intensity of female adolescence"—Booklist, Starred
"There are shades of The Lovely Bones and The Virgin Suicides in this luminous depiction of an Australian family . . . Foxlee's writing is generous and unsentimental."—The Guardian (UK)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780375856457 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
