'A dark and thrilling page-turner that turns a dystopian eye on the past in an unnervingly contemporary way.

Ĭan you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it? 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. Editions for Sin Eater: 1982124105 (Hardcover published in 2020), 1982124113 (Paperback published in 2021), 1529019060 (Hardcover published in 2020), 884. It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. 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. A young maid, May Owens, takes to stealing when she becomes all alone and destitute. I was familiar with this topic and delighted when I won an ARC giveaway from the author and Atria Books. Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. Megan Campisi's new novel, SIN EATER, chose a very interesting topic for her historical fiction subject. Stained by these sins, she is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town. Ī Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite. This is the third: a woman breaks the rules.

Īn old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town. Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything.

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi