The Silver Bones of Frances Winter by Fiona Goggin

My enormous thanks to Mikka at Everything With Words for a copy of The Silver Bones of Frances Winter by Fiona Goggin. It’s my very great pleasure to share my review today. The Silver Bones of Frances Winter is published by Everything With Words on 24th September 2026 and is available for purchase through the links here. The Silver Bones of Frances Winter ‘I swear I can hear the creak and crack of my bones growing in the night. The weight of them, a whale washed up on the shore, the rusting carcass of a ship. My growth is an unstoppable force, impossible to contain. Where will it end? That is forever my question.’ At eight years old, Frances is almost the same height as her father; by sixteen, she is over six feet tall. As she continues to grow to an extraordinary height, Frances seeks a way to reduce her size and struggles not to lose herself in the process; desperate to remain hidden, while longing to be seen, and loved for who she is, all of her. But the streets of Victorian London are not an easy place to be a woman – least of all one as striking as Frances. Wooed by the showman of a questionable ‘theatre troupe,’ taken in by shrewd spiritualists and charmed by a collection of ...