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A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time and place. The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse and the salty bite of the sea. Harsh winds scour the rocky coastline. The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature and its enchantments. Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm, unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull and dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms, haunted by horses and her father's wishes. As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation, their earthy desires, resentments, idle gossip and painful losses create a staggeringly original world. Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore, but entirely, wonderfully, her own, Zoe Gilbert's Folk is a dark, beautiful and intoxicating debut.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408884393
eBay Product ID (ePID)28046675074
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameFolk
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMythology
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorZoe Gilbert
Subject AreaFairy Tale, Fantasy
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight394 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorZoe Gilbert