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In 1945, just after the close of World War II, Grace, a devout Catholic, lives an unendurable sort of life on the Channel island of Jersey, with a husband missing in action and presumed dead, and an isolated family mansion that must be kept dark because her two young children, Anne and Nicholas, are photosensitive. When she and her children start to see and hear inexplicable things, she begins to fear for her own and her children's safety. [more inside]
posted by orange swan on Oct 19, 2023 - 9 comments

The Irish Midlands, 1862 -- a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harboring a saint 'surviving on manna from heaven' or are there more ominous motives at work? [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 18, 2022 - 6 comments