Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now Ms. Legrand is a full-time writer living in New Jersey. She has written two middle grade novels—The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012, and The Year of Shadows—as well as the young adult novel Winterspell. Visit her at Claire-Legrand.com and on Twitter @ClaireLegrand.
"Claire LeGrand’s fantastically spooky The Year of Shadows will
keep you turning its pages well into the night, even though the
floorboards are creaking and funny shapes lurk in the corner of
your eye. Such is the allure of tempestuous, terrific Olivia, the
complex and utterly real heroine who is suffering from one
misfortune and indignity too many--and that's before the ghosts
arrive. Though we soon see that sometimes ghosts are the least of
the things that haunt us, the book assures us that with spirit and
hope we can create light in the most shadowy of places. Also, like
all the best books, it has a really great cat."
*Anne Ursu, author of Breadcrumbs*
"A sad, happy, strange book, with some of the most memorable ghosts
I've ever read. It's full of shadows, but it's also full of sparks
and light and big, glowing scenes, and while it'll break your heart
more than once, it somehow manages to glue it all back together by
the end. I loved it."
*Stefan Bachmann, author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot*
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