Book description
'They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted . . . the place
where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted
with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his
name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked
perfect, like Snow White.'
Ruby and her older sister, Jinn, are on their own, just about making
ends meet. Jinn is beautiful, with glittering blonde hair, and makes it
her business to look after Ruby. They are horrified by, but try to
ignore, the local newspaper stories of prostitutes who are murdered,
their bodies eventually discovered underwater. Then the no-good Nathan
Baird turns up on the scene - again - and Jinn starts to change and no
longer has time to look after Ruby. And it seems to Ruby that Jinn
herself needs looking after. Her beautiful glittering hair starts to
lose its shine. And then Jinn disappears.
A deeply moving, chilling, and incredibly powerful thriller that
celebrates the love two sisters have for each other and mourns the
events beyond their control that will conspire to drive them apart.
This is Gillian Philip's second novel for Bloomsbury, her first being
Crossing the Line
, which was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her first YA novel Bad Faith
, was published by a small Scottish publishers. Gillian Philip lives in
Elgin in the north of Scotland.
