Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Agency. April 2 marked the eighth anniversary of the publication of my debut novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds.This past year I've often felt like I've become trapped inside the book's 1918 setting, when another pandemic threatened lives, shut down cities, and turned masks into a means of keeping everyone safe. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Unsettling b&w period photographs appear throughout, à la Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, greatly adding to the novel’s deliciously creepy atmosphere. Buy In the Shadow of Blackbirds (By: Cat Winters) published: October, 2014 by (ISBN: 9780545706056) from Amazons Book Store. Winters’s masterful debut novel is an impressively researched marriage of the tragedies of wartime, the 1918 flu epidemic, the contemporaneous Spiritualism craze, and a chilling love story and mystery. When Mary comes to, she discovers she can communicate with the dead, including Stephen. Grieving for her childhood beau Stephen, who died while fighting overseas with the Army, Mary goes outside during a thunderstorm and is struck dead by lightning-for a few minutes. With WWI raging on and Mary’s father on trial for treason, she goes to live with her Aunt Eva in San Diego, Calif., even as influenza sweeps across America, devastating the population and rendering those left behind paranoid and weary. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black lives up to her striking name-she’s a curious girl fascinated by science, living in 1918, “a year the devil designed,” as Mary puts it.
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