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Title: Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The
Author: CAMPBELL JEN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 02/11/2017
Imprint: TWO ROADS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
‘ENCHANTING AND ILLUMINATING’ Carys Bray, bestselling author of A Song For Issy Bradley’THIS BOOK IS FULL OF CHARACTER AND MAGIC, AND I FOUND MYSELF MESMERISED’ Claire Fuller, bestselling author of Our Endless Numbered Days’THESE STORIES ARE WEAVED TOGETHER LIKE SILVERY FISHING NETS. LIKE SHIMMERING, JEWEL-BRIGHT WORLDS’ Helen McClory’These days, you can find anything you need at the click of a button. That’s why I bought her heart online.’Spirits in jam jars, mini-apocalypses, animal hearts and side shows. A girl runs a coffin hotel on a remote island. A boy is worried his sister has two souls. A couple are rewriting the history of the world. And mermaids are on display at the local aquarium.The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is a collection of twelve haunting stories; modern fairy tales brimming with magic, outsiders and lost souls. ‘I’m fascinated by storytelling, and particularly fairy tales. How humans have always tried to explain things that they can’t possibly understand with, sometimes outrageous, stories’ Jen CampbellFrom the author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book.
ISBN: 9781473653535
Dimension: 222mm X 138mm
Pages: 224