Folk
  • Published:
    Feb-2018
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  • Main Genre:
    Fantasy
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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.
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    • Feb-2019
    • Bloomsbury
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1408884313
    • ISBN13: 9781408884317
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2018
    • Bloomsbury Publishing
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1408884399
    • ISBN13: 9781408884393
    •  
    • Feb-2018
    • Bloomsbury
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1408884372
    • ISBN13: 9781408884379
    •  
    • Feb-2018
    • Bloomsbury Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Feb-2018
    • Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
    • Audible



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