Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like \'guilt, and guilt, and guilt\': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the Ninth Kingdom. \'But what is the Ninth kingdom?\' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage..
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like \'guilt, and guilt, and guilt\': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the Ninth kingdom