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Gilbert, Zoe2018
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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.
Main title:
Folk / Zoe Gilbert.
Author:
Gilbert, Zoe, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
Collation:
238 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781408884393 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FAN
LC class:
PR6107
Language:
English
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BRN:
2163678
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