The Accident Season

Author(s): Moira Fowley-Doyle

YA Fiction

It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?


Product Information

A bewitching, dark and beautiful debut novel about a girl living in the shadow of a mysterious curse.

Shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize: Older Fiction 2016.

"An addictive and intoxicating coming-of-age tale with a dark and serious edge" The Bookseller "I can't call it anything but fantastic ... There actually isn't a thing about it that I would change. Eerie, mysterious, magical" Books for Birds Blog

Moira Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin with her husband, two young daughters and one old cat. Moira's French half likes red wine and dark books in which everybody dies. Her Irish half likes tea and happy endings. Moira spent several years at university studying vampires in young adult fiction before concentrating on writing young adult fiction with no vampires in it whatsoever. She wrote her first novel at the age of eight, when she was told that if she wrote a story about spiders she wouldn't be afraid of them any more. Moira is still afraid of spiders, but has never stopped writing stories.

General Fields

  • : 9780552571302
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : May 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Moira Fowley-Doyle
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 823.92
  • : 288