"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you don't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." I am reading the Onion Girl again. Whenever I find myself in a mood that doesn't seem to fit anywhere I read this book and now that I have Widdershins which is in some way a follow up I will add that to my reading fit. Today is one of those...

The Onion Girl

... world turning. At the center of all the entwined lives of 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 ... to forget. And the past is coming to claim her now. ‘I’m the onion girl,’ Jilly Coppercorn says. “Pull back the layers of my life, and you won’t find anything at the core. ...

From the Favorites' Shelf: Widdershins

...Onion Girl , his first Newford novel told the backstory of Jilly Coppercorn, painter and well-acquainted with the spirit world. Widdershins isn't so much a sequel as it is a follow-up. " Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford ... To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Jilly Coppercorn. While she's an amazingly well-crafted and written character, Jilly...