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No Season but the Summer (Hardcover)
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No Season but the Summer (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R429
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You Save R85 (17%)
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Spring and summer are my mother's time, autumn and winter are my
husband's. What is left for me? Persephone spends six months of the
year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six
months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has
been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck.
But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains
lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are
people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother
does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing
rapidly and even the gods have lost control. While Demeter tries to
regain her powers and fend off her daughter's husband, who wants to
drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a
taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors. Used to blinking
up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the
very first time from the treetops with activist Snow, Persephone
realises that there are choices she can make for herself. But what
will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, and for the
new shoots of life inside her? No Season but the Summer takes a
classic myth and turns it on its head, asking what will happen when
our oldest stories fail us, when all the rules have changed. It is,
above all, a book about choice.
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