The Girl with Glass Feet: A Novel
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEStrange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an...
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WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEStrange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. The Girl with Glass Feet is a love story to treasure, “crafted with elegance and swept by passionate magic and the yearning for connection. A rare pleasure” (Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312680459 (0312680457)
ASIN: 0312680457
Publish date: 2011-01-04
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
So many mixed emotions after finishing this. It was the source of a lot of internal debate, whether to give it a 3, 3.5, but heck I give this a 4 because, despite the several shortcomings that are clear while you're reading the book, "The Girl with Glass Feet" was a beautiful tale that made it so ea...
These are only some of my favorite books. Picking just one would be impossible!
Bit odd, yet very lovely at the same time. Slow start, and slow parts through the book, but perhaps there to make you focus on the words - which are beautiful. Shaw's way with words is simply beautiful.
***Brave Cold Feet Very nice read! Magical scenery, nice concept for plot. Two young people meet in a remote little town. A girl who lives in the woods is suffering from strange disease, she's turning into glass. The illness started from her feet- that's why she lips while walking. Nobody knows abo...