Megan Campisi did her research on this one Running across an old reference to people eating foods to take away the sins of the dying, she expanded and developed a fascinating story. 'A dark and thrilling page-turner that turns a dystopian eye on the past in an unnervingly contemporary way. This is coming from someone that typically sticks to mysteries and rom-coms.

Ĭan you uncover the truth when you're forbidden from speaking it? When she is called to the deathbed of one of Queen Bethany’s courtiers, she discovers a dark conspiracy at the heart of the court. 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. Set in an alternative 16th century England, the novel follows fourteen-year-old ophan May as she is condemned to a life of exile as a sin eater. 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. Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, only concerned with where her next meal is coming from. 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. Editions for Sin Eater: 1982124105 (Hardcover published in 2020), 1982124113 (Paperback published in 2021), 1529019060 (Hardcover published in 2020), 884. 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