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Cuckoo song frances hardinge summary5/27/2023 Into this, someone who believes she is Triss Crescent wakes up. Everyone is defined by who they have lost, and there are ghosts woven throughout the story (although not real ghosts, in this particular book). In this sense, Hardinge’s choice of setting, England in the early 1920s, is inspired. Crescent who is physically present but creates a kind of absence by her refusal to act. Anyway: the opening is fitting, because the story is haunted by the people who are missing. It’s an opening that basically goes against all the writing advice ever given, and just goes to show that all writing advice is relative. This book opens with an absence, a complete absence of memory and identity. This post is very full of spoilers, so please tread carefully if you haven’t read this one yet and are planning to! I loved Cuckoo Song when it first came out as a UK edition and had very fond memories of it, but hadn’t actually reread it since. I’ve been a Frances Hardinge fan for quite some time now, and I thought I’d revisit one of her books.
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