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Genre/Form: | Fantasy fiction Young adult fiction Fiction Young adult works |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Margo Lanagan |
ISBN: | 9780857560339 0857560336 9781446478448 1446478440 |
OCLC Number: | 758983807 |
Awards: | Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2013 (UK) Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2013 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Margo Lanagan. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Outstanding . . . Margo Lanagan is a writer whose violently sexy reworkings of Grimm have previously been more for teenagers, but her new book stays within the allusive fairy tale tropes and will enthrall readers of 11+. Nothing is predictable in this astonishing novel, which expands on classic tales about selkie brides with unsettling imaginative thoroughness -- Amanda Craig * The Times * Atmospheric, moving and rich in detail. * Fluttering Butterflies * Margo Lanagan's writing is dangerously beautiful; it knows how to dance, and it knows how to fight -- Mal Peet Lanagan's prose is always a joy . . . she shows writing of the highest order: subtle, powerful, poetic -- Marcus Sedgwick * Guardian * Powerful, beautiful, dangerous, unsettling, truthful, earthy, challenging, poetic, wonderful, absorbing. I can't recommend it highly enough. Margo Lanagan has a unique, uncompromising and lyrical voice and she brings it to the folk myth of selkies in a soaring journey of passion and pain . . . Read this selkie novel. It's heartstoppingly gorgeous. And you won't find anyone else with a voice like Margo's. Five stars * The Bookbag * Read more...

