

A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running.

"Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. And that past is coming to claim her now. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story.for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips-Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Newford: where magic lights dark streets where myths walk clothed in modern shapes where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning. ✤ BOOK 11 BLURB-The Onion Girl (2001): In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life.
