The Bone Diver - A gothic tale of legend, secrets and monsters in the deep

"A highly effective slice of folklore-inspired fantasy" THE HERALDA gothic tale of family, the legend of the selkies - shapeshifting mythological creatures - and a young woman who is offered an impossible choice. The only daughter in a family of Scottish seal-hunters, Kier Sealgair is becoming a burden.

About the author

Angie Spoto is an American writer living in Scotland. She grew up near Chicago, lived in the Netherlands, and eventually moved to Scotland to get her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She loves stories that are dark and surreal, strange and magical, and is inspired by writers like Ursula Le Guinn, Octavia Butler, Leonora Carrington, and Naomi Novik. She loves fairy tales, especially Scottish ones. She lives beside the shore with her husband and son.

Summary

"A highly effective slice of folklore-inspired fantasy" THE HERALDA gothic tale of family, the legend of the selkies - shapeshifting mythological creatures - and a young woman who is offered an impossible choice. The only daughter in a family of Scottish seal-hunters, Kier Sealgair is becoming a burden.

Foreword

A gothic tale of an aristocratic Scottish family and the legend of the selkies - mythological creatures that can shapeshift between seal and human forms - and a young woman, the daughter of a seal-hunting family, who is offered an impossible choice.

Product details

• Authors: Angie Spoto
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9781785306600
• ISBN: 978-1-78530-660-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Gothic, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Scotland, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Gothic, Myth & legend told as fiction, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction