Cette auteure est une accro aux livres invétérée et une auteure pleine d'espoir, qui insuffle dans son œuvre une riche tapisserie d'expériences de vie. Son écriture est façonnée par une diversité d'intérêts, du ballet aux arts cinématographiques, reflétant une perspective unique sur le monde et ses histoires.
Eighteen year olds often have problems, especially those who move around a lot. Sonnet Gray is not your typical eighteen year old. When her family moves, they don't move to new towns, they move to new centuries. She and her family are members of the Lost; a group of time travelers who have no control over when and where their journeys take them.
It's shaping up to be the most dangerous of all Christmas Eves, and fifteen year old Ree Stahlbaum is in the midst of it. Apprentice to a mysterious inventor named Drosselmeier, Ree is swept up in his dark dealings as the clock strikes midnight. As she leaves her comfortable, safe hearth and home to uncover the secrets behind living toys and enchanted creatures, Ree finds friendship and enemies in unexpected places. Putting aside her knitting and embroidery, and the constant nagging of her sister are all tasks she can relish easily enough, but the choices and demands only get harder from there. Is Ree up to the task of righting Drosselmeier's wrongs, with only a nutcracker man, a clockwork doll, an irritating older brother, a handful of urchins, and her wits to help her? With an army of mechanical rats close on her heels and an air ship of sky pirates above her, time is running out, and Ree can't be sure who to trust. Drosselmeier's dark world is unlike anything Ree has ever known. A lifetime of needlepoint, piano forte, and etiquette lessons had hardly prepared her for this.
The Alarming Side Effects of Books and Other Tales Here we are introduced to an unusual and eccentric cast of characters, in an entertaining anthology of stories. Meet a wraith with a penchant for cotton candy in, The Story Catcher. Then, in Mrs. Lemon's Haunting, we meet a happily undead group of ghosts that haunt a peculiar piece of real estate. In The Houses of Bell Street, we find Jakob, a foster boy who discovers magic and tragedy across the highway. Then, we're all invited to a doomed couple's last supper on the night before their divorce in Romantic Comedy. What can happen when your head is full of too many novels? Find out in The Alarming Side Effect of Books. Pay a visit to an unusual but thriving business, and meet the shopkeepers who own it in, The Department Store of Lost Souls. And finally, In Dear Lottie, small boy with an antique plane attempts to help a World War I pilot return home to his wife. It's a magical collection of stories that you're sure to love.