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040			_aKenya National Library Service _erda
082			_a823.92 STO
100			_a Stott, Rebecca _eauthor
245			_aDark earth / _c Rebecca Stott.
300			_a 344 pages ; _c 20 cm
520			_aAD 500. An island in the Thames. Isla has a secret: she has learned her father's sophisticated sword-making skills at a time when even entering a forge is forbidden to women. Her sister, Blue, has a secret, too: at low tide on the night of each new moon, she visits the bones of the mud woman, drowned by the elders of her tribe who wanted to make a lesson of someone who wouldn't hold her tongue. When the local Seax overlord discovers Isla's secret there is nowhere for the sisters to hide, except across the water to the walled ghost city, Londinium. Here Blue and Isla find sanctuary in an underworld community of squatters, emigrants, travellers and looters, led by the mysterious Crowther, living in an abandoned brothel and bathhouse. But trouble pursues them even into the haunted city.
650			_aContemporary lifestyle fiction
650			_aHistorical fiction
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