Mirrorland: the dark and twisty fiction debut from 2022's new voice in psychological suspense

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Unfortunately this meant that, for me, some aspects of the ending descended into cliché, which was a huge shame given how fresh and original the rest of the plot felt. From the very beginning, the reader is thrown into a confusing world of Clown Cafes and Princess Towers, and it is unclear which characters are real and who has been plucked from the fragments of Cat’s childhood imagination. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.

In this lively, insightful and readable book, Ed Pulford travels through the two countries, looking for the myriad and often unexpected ways they connect and collide. The book is packed chock-full of twists and turns – the author drops an absolute bombshell halfway through which turns things on their head, and then after that the twists do not stop coming! It sounds daunting, especially when defined by Gérard Genette as “a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one’s whole reading of the text.Let me be clear, this is not magical realism – or at least it isn’t in my mind – what this is about is escapism and childhood imagination working overtime to block things out (although clowns?

So much of Mirrorland began as Mum’s invention before El and I turned it into something else, something more than alive. And I'm ashamed to say that it was always his voice I heard first'familiar and forgotten, hardly changed at all'rather than his words. Johnstone's debut had me flying through the pages while also wanting to sink into her gorgeous writing.

When I was having trouble getting into this ebook, so I was thrilled when it showed up as an option from Libro FM!

That this is the only thing about America that I won’t miss makes me feel more tired, more pissed off. A treasure hunt, time jumps, a fantastical world, characters who leap off the pages and ingenious storytelling mixed with a thriller make this such an inventive book. We also get to meet El through flashbacks, though these are told from Cat’s POV and so are slightly skewed, but we also get to read a little of her POV through diary notes and letters that she has left for Cat to find round the house. Vivid and creative writing brings this world to life and provides important context for what is happening in the present. It’s about twins Ellice (El) and Catriona (Cat) who as children are as close as can be but as adults have drifted apart with El remaining in their native Edinburgh and Cat moving to LA.For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. It is a fantastical world which feels incredibly real and I could almost feel the ship listing in a storm and was there in the Clown Cafe with the twins. It is also an occasional home to Ross, Cat and El’s next-door neighbour, honorary crewmate, first crush, and secret friend. She lives in the Highlands of Scotland, although her heart belongs to the wild islands of the Outer Hebrides.

Mirrorland is part horror part psychological thriller and I spent every minute I could gripped to the pages, desperate to know what exactly was really happening. identical twins Ellice and Catriona show up at Edinburgh's Granton Harbour at dawn, covered in blood and badly beaten, seeking passage aboard a pirate ship. I loved the thriller/psychological elements, but every time we went into the weird make believe world the story would start to lose me.Cat moved away to LA after an argument in their late teens, and tried to put her sister out of her mind entirely. M. Logan 'AN UNSETTLING, LABYRINTHINE TALE' New York Times____________________________________________________________________ One twin ran.