Character Interview with Eva + Giveaway: Signed Copy of The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna + bookmarks

Hi everyone! Today, I have Eva from The Lost Girl, Sangu Mandanna’s debut. She’s very intriguing. You see…she’s a replacement for a girl named Amarra.

Can you tell us about yourself?

My name is Eva. I... no, I can't. I can't give you a real answer. I am an echo. I was stitched by Weavers at the Loom. I am a copy of someone else, which means one day I may have to replace her, which means I am not allowed to be me. But I can answer the way I'm supposed to: my name is Amarra. I have a brother and a sister. I want to study archaeology when I'm at college. I love iced coffee and Jane Austen.

What do you think of the present world?

Erm, what do I think? The real me? It's not so different from the world I know. I mean, my time isn't far ahead at all. Though I do think it strange that hardly anyone talks about the Loom or echoes at all.

What was the first thing you did when you got here?

I ate haggis. It's a Scottish thing. Amarra has never had it, see, so I just had to... it would be really nice if you didn't mention that to the Weavers.

If you lived in our time, who would you be? What would you do?

Me. If I lived in your time, if I knew the Weavers would never find out, I would be me. That is the easiest question in the world to answer.

What is your favorite thing about 2012? Why?

I kind of answered that already: the fact that hardly anyone talks about the Loom. It's like the world is still able to ignore it, somewhat, and as strange as that is to me, it's also a relief. I can almost pretend the Loom doesn't exist. I spend most of my life pretending, but this is one pretence I would gladly live with.

If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for? Why?

I would wish to be me. I would wish for a lot of other things, a pony among them, but in the end, they all come back to the first one: I would wish to be me.

About the Author:

Sangu Mandanna was four years old when she was chased by an elephant and wrote her first story about it and decided that this was what she wanted to do with her life. Seventeen years later, she read Frankenstein. It sent her into a writing frenzy that became THE LOST GIRL, a novel about death and love and the tie that binds the two together. Sangu now lives in England with her husband and son.

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Giveaway: Signed Copy of The Lost Girl + Bookmarks

Thanks to Sangu, one of you will win a signed finished copy of The Lost Girl, one of my most anticipated novels of 2012, along with The Lost Girl bookmarks! Just fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Goodluck!

Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her “other”, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.

But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.

Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known—the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love—to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive.

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