The Accident Season

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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?

Critics Review

A magical debut that you will devour
Guardian
Eerie and edgy, dark and intense . . . You'll read it in a single breathless sitting
The Bookseller
Months after reading Mou00efra Fowley-Doyleu2019s stunning debut, I am still blown away . . . One of the best books I've read in years. An exquisite story u2013 the kind to win awards, top bestseller lists, and become the obsession of book lovers everywhere
Publishers Weekly
This astonishingly bold debut combines gritty reality with mystical, ghostly presences u2013 and is beautifully written
Daily Mail
The Accident Season is brilliant
Compelling . . . a dark teen romance with a spooky vibe
The Times
Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author's astonishing debut . . . A powerful novel from an exciting new talent
Kirkus
I canu2019t call it anything but fantastic . . . There actually isnu2019t a thing about it that I would change. Eerie, mysterious, magical
Books for Birds Blog
Sensuous, eerie, lyrical . . . Fowley-Doyleu2019s The Accident Season reads like a poem. The mystery is intriguing, the writing is gorgeous, and the characters are vivid. A lovely debut
April Tucholke, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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