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“Here in the Cellar,” Corinna says, “I control the Folk. Here, I’m queen of the world.” As Folk Keeper at the Rhysbridge Home, she feeds the fierce, dark-dwelling cave Folk; keeps them from souring the milk, killing the chickens, and venting their anger on the neighborhood; and writes it all down in her Folk Record. Since only boys are Folk Keepers, she has disguised herself as a boy, Corin, and it is a boy and a Folk Keeper she intends to stay. Yet there comes a moment when someone else knows the truth. Old, dying Lord Merton not only knows she is a girl, but knows some of her other secrets as well. It is at his bidding that she, as Corin, leaves Rhysbridge to become Folk Keeper and a member of the family on Cliffsend, an isle where the Folk are fiercer than ever they were at Rhysbridge. It is on Cliffsend that Corina comes face to face with herself, with the powers she does have and those she does not have. Who really is she? Why does her hair grow two inches a night? Why does the sea draw her? What does she really want? And what future can and will she choose?
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“Corinna has pretended to be Corin because only boys can be Folk Keepers, intermediaries between the mischievous spirits known as the Folk and the humans. Corinna knows she has some of the gifts of a Folk Keeper but none of the training so she acquires as much knowledge as she can in a variety of ways in order to keep the Folk appeased. But there is a greater mystery about Corinna that she discovers when she is convinced to become Folk Keeper for Lord Edward.”
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Neill (5 out of 5 stars)
