Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge 407 pages
The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green
glass eyes. Slowly they swiveled, until their gaze was resting on
Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak. 'What are you
doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a
voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. 'Who do you think you
are? This is my family.' When Triss wakes up after an accident, she
knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister
seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She
looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been
ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more
strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is
quite literally not herself. In a quest find the truth she must travel
into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect
who has dark designs on her family - before it's too late ...
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