Folk
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2018
256 pages
978-1-4088-8437-9 (ISBN)
Description
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
'That rare thing: genuinely unique' OBSERVER
'Will win you over ... Magical' THE TIMES
'Absolutely stunning. I loved it' MADELINE MILLER, AUTHOR OF CIRCE
On the remote island of Neverness, the villagers' lives are entwined with nature: its enchantments, seductions and dangers. There is May, the young fiddler who seeks her musical spirit; Madden Lightfoot, who flies with red kites; and Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm. Over the course of a generation, their desires, gossip and heartbreak interweave to create a staggeringly original world, crackling with echoes of ancient folklore.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
'That rare thing: genuinely unique' OBSERVER
'Will win you over ... Magical' THE TIMES
'Absolutely stunning. I loved it' MADELINE MILLER, AUTHOR OF CIRCE
On the remote island of Neverness, the villagers' lives are entwined with nature: its enchantments, seductions and dangers. There is May, the young fiddler who seeks her musical spirit; Madden Lightfoot, who flies with red kites; and Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm. Over the course of a generation, their desires, gossip and heartbreak interweave to create a staggeringly original world, crackling with echoes of ancient folklore.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
black and white illustrations throughout
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8437-9 (9781408884379)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
ZOE GILBERT is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2014. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and in anthology and journals in the UK and internationally. She has taken part in writing projects in China and South Korea for the British Council, and she is completing a PhD on folk tales in contemporary fiction. The co-founder of London Lit Lab, which provides writing courses and mentoring for writers, she lives on the coast in Kent.
Content
- Cover
- Praise for Folk
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Prick Song
- Fishskin, Hareskin
- The Neverness Ox-men
- The True Tale of Jack Frost
- Sticks are for Fire
- Water Bull Bride
- Swirling Cleft
- Thunder Cracks
- Earth is Not for Eating
- Long Have I Lain Beside the Water
- Verlyn's Blessings
- Kite
- A Winter Guest
- Turning
- Tether
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Copyright Page
