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The Girl with Glass Feet
Ali Shaw
Henry Holt & Company
January 2010
On Sale: January 5, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0805091149
EAN: 9780805091144
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a
quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for
readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound
archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Unusual winged creatures
flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves
in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning
into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander
who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during
that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to
take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands
his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad,
defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas
helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually
unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in
precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is
slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the
spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and
magical first novel, a love story to treasure.
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