The First Word on PROMISES TO KEEP by Charles de Lint
First word on Charles de Lint’s new short (roughly 170 page) novel, Promises to Keep, just in from Booklist: “De Lint returns to Newford and Jilly Coppercorn’s youth, which readers of The Onion Girl and other Jilly stories know was extremely painful. The setting here is Jilly’s early college days. She is just beginning to put her abused past behind her. One evening she runs into her only friend from her days in a juvenile institution, one of the few who know her original name… De Lint presents Jilly’s choices, the memories impelling them, and the solution to the riddle of Donna in his characteristic powerful yet intimate style. Jilly’s reader friends, including those first meeting her, will be more than delighted.”