The Island Child

Informationen zum Autor Molly Aitken was born in Scotland and brought up in Ireland. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares , for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction 2023, Banshee , and has been dramatized for BBC Radio 4. Her first novel The Island Child was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Molly is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University. @MollyAitken1 | @molly.aitken Klappentext The power and danger of maternal love is explored in this debut novel rooted in Irish folklore. 'Brimming with pathos and emotion' Nathan Filer Vorwort A rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother's love, from one of the most exciting new voices in Irish fiction, longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Zusammenfassung A rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother's love, from one of the most exciting new voices in Irish fiction, longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Molly Aitken
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.01.2020
• EAN: 9781786898333
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-833-3
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 144 mm x 220 mm x 31 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Family life fiction, Ireland, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales