This book had me hooked from the start. A Cinderella story with a twist? Sign me up!The protagonist is likeable right away, and the moment you hear of her situation your heart goes out to her. The whole book is told in a beautiful manner, and the protagonist added with the storyline makes the sto...
It went by in a sort of grey blur, and the words and presences of the others were no more than vague shapes at the corners of my perception. They were all very kind, of course. But it was an effort to speak, an effort to eat, and I longed for night to come and to be left in peace. At last that ti...
I can’t see anything. My eyelids are pressed down as though they are stone. I’ve died. I must be in the afterlife . . . ‘There she goes again, thinking she’s died. What an imagination that girl’s got.’ ‘Lucky for us all that she does, my friend.’ I know those voices. I’m wandering in the fog agai...
After a hurried wash and breakfast of porridge and strong tea, we were bustled out of the barracks, allocated picks and sent off to the mines on foot. The entrance was guarded by a couple of brawny giants who demanded to see our identification before giving us each a card that we had to punch int...