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Informationen zum Autor Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. Since graduating he has worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel. Klappentext Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around icy bogland; albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods; jellyfish glow in the ocean's depths... And Ida MacLaird is slowly turning into glass. THE GIRL WITH GLASS FEET is a dazzlingly imaginative and gripping first novel! a love story to treasure. The Girl with Glass Feet is an enthralling and eerie fairytale, a first novel of remarkable and original imagination, for all those who fell in love with The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Read it and be cast under its spell... Zusammenfassung Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010) Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009) Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009) Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010) Shortlisted Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012) A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hold of Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass! from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda's Land! where she believes the glass first took hold! hoping to find the one man who might just be able to cure her. Midas Crook is a young loner! who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida! something about her sad! defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction! she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart! and they begin to fall in love... What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast...Will they be able to halt the spread of the glass?
