The Accident Season

Description

It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?

Awards

Shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Older Fiction 2016.

Reviews

"An addictive and intoxicating coming-of-age tale with a dark and serious edge" The Bookseller "I can't call it anything but fantastic ... There actually isn't a thing about it that I would change. Eerie, mysterious, magical" Books for Birds Blog