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Wild Swans, The

$45.00

Wild Swans, The

SKU: 9781783528882 Category: Product ID: 565870

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Title: Wild Swans, The
Author: MORRIS JACKIE
Illustrator: COLOUR THROUGHOUT
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/01/2023
Imprint: UNBOUND
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active

Age range 11 to 14

A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and knit into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan-boy. And so she knits in silence. And where there is silence, people will put words. 

The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen in Jackie Morris's enchanting retelling, complete with delicate watercolour paintings throughout this new edition. A story about love and bravery, about how to listen, and about how, when we do not listen, we hear what we wish to hear. 'Beautiful, lyrical, and lovely'.

'Jackie Morris does more than tell a story; she conjures glorious landscapes of the heart.' Joanne Harris

ISBN: 9781783528882
Dimension: 178mm X 143mm

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Dimensions 178 × 143 mm