{"product_id":"the-sin-eater-3","title":"Sin Eater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. Stained by these sins, she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. When she’s arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one then two of the Queen’s courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's \u003ci\u003eThe Sin Eater\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, as May learns, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32143516532819,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529019100_be473dcb-3c15-4cd4-ae65-348778990a5b.jpg?v=1768473937","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-sin-eater-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}