- Title:
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Folk
- Written by:
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Zoe Gilbert
- Read by:
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Penelope Rawlins
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 10 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2018
- Available Date:
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September 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489459954
- Genres:
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Fiction; Fables & Fairytales
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award.
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.
'An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient – drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore - and strikingly contemporary.'
The Financial Times
'Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life ... It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind.'
The Guardian
'Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales.'
The Times Literary Supplement
'That rare thing: genuinely unique. It's part-myth, part-allegory, wholly wonderful.'
The Observer