Cuckoo Song

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, is a fantastically eerie and beautifully written novel, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

The first things to shift were the doll''s eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss''s face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak.

''What a...