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Savage her reply
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- Book Synopsis
- A dark and witchy feminist retelling of the Irish fairytale, The Children of Lir - from the author of the multi-award-winning Tangleweed and Brine. Aìfe is a witch, a stepmother, and a woman pushed to the edge. When she marries Lir, a powerful chieftain, she finds herself living in the shadow of his four beloved children - and of the wife he lost. Consumed by jealousy, grief and rage, Aìfe commits an unforgivable act, transforming the children into swans cursed to wander for nine hundred years. But this is not the story you think you know. Told in Aìfe's own voice, Savage Her Reply is unsettling and lyrical, brutal and beautiful - a story about female anger, motherhood, guilt and the cost of being silenced. As Aìfe reckons with the consequences of her magic, she forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: monsters are often made, not born. Perfect for fans of dark fairy-tale retellings, Irish mythology and feminist YA fantasy, this is a spellbinding novel that will linger long after the final page. 'No-one else writes like Deirdre Sullivan. She is lyrical, poetic and thoroughly intoxicating.' - Juno Dawson 'Unsettling, haunting, and darkly lyrical' Louise O'Neill
- About The Author
- Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher. Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Previously, her novel Needlework had won the Honour Award for Fiction at the Children's Books Ireland Awards in 2017. Sullivan's Primrose Leary series was also widely praised; two of the Prim books were shortlisted for the Children's Books Ireland Awards; and the final one, Primperfect, was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781912417643
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Little Island Books, (01 October 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 249
- Weight
- 464 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 230 x 150 x 25 mm
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