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'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK,
POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR
ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are
sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant
archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children
following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England
and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to
the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the
Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way
into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most
exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly
original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp
writing and cleverly done' Spectator
'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a
moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng,
bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere It's been sixteen
years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget
her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite
them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language
that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus,
living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be
underwater, swimming ever closer. In the end there will be nothing
for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family
secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again.
'As readable as it is dazzling, full of unsettling twists and dark
revelations' Observer **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**
The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of
Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller'
Observer Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and
September. Desperate for a fresh start, they move across the
country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own.
Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own
accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless. In their new,
unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she's
always had with September - forged with a blood promise when they
were children - is beginning to change in ways she cannot
understand.
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Fen (Paperback)
Daisy Johnson
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Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the
Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'Full of
unabashedly, refreshingly angry women... In a year that made me
furious, Daisy Johnson's Fen was a howl I didn't know I needed'
Celeste Ng The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives
here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But
the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place
where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious
metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger.
So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A
house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to
a, well, what? 'Instant classic...a bold, take-no-prisoners
collection situated somewhere between Angela Carter and Deborah
Levy' Jeff VanderMeer
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