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Folk

Zoe Gilbert

3.82/5 (1875 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 238 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Bloomsbury UK

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1408884399

ISBN13:: 9781408884393

kindle Asin:: 1408884372

Folk

Zoe Gilbert

3.82/5 (1875 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 238 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Bloomsbury UK

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1408884399

ISBN13:: 9781408884393

kindle Asin:: 1408884372

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