Diving Belles

Zusatztext Steeped in enchantments and shimmering with an infusion of the area's folklore and landscape ... excellent Informationen zum Autor Lucy Wood is the author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories based on Cornish folklore Diving Belles . She has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She lives in Devon. Klappentext LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2012 Along Cornwall's ancient coast, from time to time, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wreckers' lamps and baying hounds as Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction Zusammenfassung A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Wood
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9781408830437
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-3043-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fantasy, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary