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The Brides Of Rollrock Island
Lanagan Margo

The Brides Of Rollrock Island

Alfred A. Knopf (2012)
1 Edition
9780375869198
| Hardcover
305 pages
€ 19.00 | Value: € 2.74
Dewey 1209
LC Classification PZ7.L216 .Br 2012
LC Control No. 2011047466

Genre

  • Fantasy Fiction

Subject

  • Islands - Fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy &Magic
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Other
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions &Feelings
  • Magic - Fiction
  • Selkies - Fiction
  • Witches - Fiction

Plot

"On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she. He will be equally ensnared. And the witch will have her true payment"--