Susann Cokal schrijft boeiende verhalen die ingaan op de complexiteit van menselijke emoties en relaties. Haar proza wordt geroemd om zijn lyrische kwaliteit en haar vermogen om lezers onder te dompelen in rijk verbeelde werelden. Cokal benadert thema's als adolescentie en identiteitsvorming met opmerkelijke gevoeligheid, en creëert werken die diep resoneren. Haar onderscheidende stem en diepgaande inzichten in de menselijke psyche maken haar een auteur wiens boeken een ontdekkingsreis zijn.
On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, the Scandinavian kingdom of Skyggehavn prepares to fête the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches: brocade and satin and jewels, feasts of sugar fruit and sweet spiced wine. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favours sets a devious plot in motion.
An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit. Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid — but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever. From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.