The Girl with Glass Feet

Ali Shaw author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:1st Jan '10

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'Magical' Guardian Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa First Novel Award, this is a novel to fall in love with - for anyone who loved the escapism of The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

'Magical' Guardian

Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa First Novel Award, this is a novel to fall in love with - for anyone who loved the escapism of The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

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. Fragile and determined to find a cure, she returns to the strange, enchanted island where she believes the transformation began, in search of reclusive Henry Fuwa, the one man who might just be able to help...

Instead she meets Midas Crook, and another transformation begins: as Midas helps Ida come to terms with her condition, they fall in love. What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast.

"'Magical' Guardian 'Ali Shaw has written a rare orchid of a book, beautiful and eccentric and exquisitely sad' Patrick Ness 'Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story... A magical fable of fate and resignation.' Guardian 'Virtually weightless in execution... Gorgeously written, its unsentimental confrontation with mortality belies its whimsical surfaces.' Metro 'A haunting and magical tale... Ali Shaw pulls it off in dazzling style, spinning an unforgettable story so vividly described that the reader is only too willing to suspend disbelief in order to be transported into his sad and lovely world.' Aberdeen Press and Journal 'The Girl with Glass Feet is not just special - it's remarkable... [This] debut novel conjures up the extraordinary and fantastic, yet places it firmly in our digital world... It's a very visual novel - readers who enjoy using their imagination will adore it.' Oxford Times"

  • Winner of DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2010 (UK)
  • Short-listed for COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2009 (UK)

ISBN: 9781843549208

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 19mm

Weight: 246g

304 pages

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