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Written by Faith McKay
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 06:43 |
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There are two fantasy books released today that I'm excited about-Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan and The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett. Both are young adult fantasy novels with The Ghost's Child coming in at 192 pages and Tender Morsels at 448 pages. Sonya Hartnett is currently shortlisted for a 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize.
“Tender Morsels” by Margo Lanagan Book Description: TENDER MORSELS is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—
magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side? “The Ghost's Child” by Sonya Hartnett. Book Description: Maddy, an old lady now, arrives home one day to find a peculiar boy waiting for her. Over tea, she tells him the story of her life long ago, when she wished for her days to be as romantic and mysterious as a fairy tale. It was then that she fell painfully in love with a free spirit named Feather, who put aside his wild ways to live with her in a little cottage, conceived with her a child never to be born, and disappeared — leaving an inconsolable Maddy to follow after him on a fantastical journey across the sea. Both books are available on amazon.com and I've linked them in the book's titles.
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