My review:🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi is set in a world where Sin Eaters are women who have been cast out by society, cannot speak to anyone, except for hearing their list of sins in their life, and then they say the food that they will eat to absolve the confessor’s sins. They also have a collar put on around their neck that is locked in place.
May Owens becomes a sit eater at 14 after being caught trying to steal a loaf of bread. She goes to live with the sin eater, and learn the life, all without words. When a food is left out for a sin that a confessor didn’t confess to, things start to happen.
This is set in a version of Tudor England, with a queen that feels very like Queen Elizabeth I. I enjoyed the historical references that you could recognise, and I’m sure there were more that I didn’t spot! It was a rich story, with a mystery investigated when the investigator can’t talk.
The Sin Eater was published on 23rd July 2020, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.
I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Pan MacMillan.