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The Sin Eater (Paperback)
Megan Campisi; Read by Shiromi Arserio
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An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a
voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman
breaks the rules . . .
Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's
The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of
women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an
outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for
everything . . .
A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of
the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. Stained by these sins,
she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of
town.
Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where
her next meal is coming from. When she’s arrested for stealing a loaf
of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater,
finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.
It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new
doors. And when first one then two of the Queen’s courtiers suddenly
grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to
investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace
corridors . . .
Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?
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