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The Brides of Rollrock Island
Margo Lanagan
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Description for The Brides of Rollrock Island
Paperback. Rollrock is an isolated, windswept island; a wild and salty landscape where fishermen and their families must wring a living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of eerie magic, and of powerful desire. Down on the beach, the outcast witch of Rollrock casts her spells, and draws mysterious girls from the sea. Num Pages: 320 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Rollrock is an isolated, windswept island; a wild and salty landscape where fishermen and their families must wring a living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of eerie magic, and of powerful desire.
Down on the beach, the outcast witch of Rollrock casts her spells, and draws mysterious girls from the sea. These are girls with long, pale limbs and faces of haunting innocence - the most enchantingly beautiful creatures the fishermen of Rollrock have ever seen.
The island is envied, and many a man is lured to Rollrock with the promise ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849921121
SKU
KRA0010045
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan's novels and short story collections have excited readers the world over, and won many prizes, including four World Fantasy Awards - for 'Singing My Sister Down' (Best Short Fiction, 2005), Black Juice (Best Collection, 2005), Tender Morsels (Best Novel, 2009), and Sea-Hearts (Best Novella, 2010). She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Reviews for The Brides of Rollrock Island
Outstanding . . . Margo Lanagan is a writer whose violently sexy reworkings of Grimm have previously been more for teenagers, but her new book stays within the allusive fairy tale tropes and will enthrall readers of 11+. Nothing is predictable in this astonishing novel, which expands on classic tales about selkie brides with unsettling imaginative thoroughness
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