Diving Belles
(eBook)
In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth. Straying husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains and worrying about frayed carpets. A mother, who seems alone and lonely, may be rubbing sore muscles or holding the hands of her invisible lover as he touches her neck. Phantom hounds roam the moors and, on a windy beach, a boy and his grandmother beat back despair with an old white door. In these stories, the line between the real and the imagined is blurred as Lucy Wood takes us to Cornwall's ancient coast, building on its rich storytelling history and recasting its myths in thoroughly contemporary ways. Calling forth the fantastic and fantastical, she mines these legends for that bit of magic remaining in all our lives-if only we can let ourselves see it.
Notes
Wood, L. (2012). Diving Belles. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wood, Lucy. 2012. Diving Belles. [United States], HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wood, Lucy, Diving Belles. [United States], HarperCollins, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wood, Lucy. Diving Belles. [United States], HarperCollins, 2012.
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