Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin
Other Words for Smoke (2019) is not a traditional coming-of-age story. Its composite parts include a magical house, a witch, her apprentice, their talking cat and an evil owl fed on bones that materialises through the walls. And yet, at its heart, the tale is universal: it explores the pain of adolescence, unrequited love and the turmoil of a family falling apart.
The story opens with twins Mae and Rossa huddled outside the wreckage of a burnt house.
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