Ormeshadow

OrmeshadowWinner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Novella Award Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming of age story as dark and rich as good soil. Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin. Uprooted from Bath by his father's failures, Gideon Belman

Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Novella Award

Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil.

Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin.

Uprooted from Bath by his father's failures, Gideon Belman finds himself stranded on Ormeshadow farm, an ancient place of chalk and ash and shadow. The land crests the Orme, a buried, sleeping dragon that dreams resentment, jealousy, estrangement, death. Or so the folklore says. Growing up in a house that hates him, Gideon finds his only comforts in the land. Gideon will live or die by the Orme, as all his family has.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: 10/15/2019
ISBN: 9781250241443
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019
Booklist 10/01/2019 pg. 35