Despite the rather unfortunate name, The Fool is not an idiot. The first card in a standard pack of tarot is called The Fool. Set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.Īuthor Links: Website Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily’s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find - even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.
But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. IndieBoundĪfter Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St.And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears.Publication Date March 30th 2021 by Walker Books USįind It On Goodreads Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be there. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. "The most authentic teenage voice I've read in ages. Fiercely, furiously good." Melinda Salisbury
"So gripping, so intriguing, so layered - All Our Hidden Gifts feels like a book that should have always existed." Kiran Millwood Hargrave A dark and supernatural contemporary teen debut by multi-talented author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue.
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