Published by Doubleday, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Hardback
£15.00
Author:
Joanne Harris
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780857521194
£15.00
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EAN: 9780857521194
Published: 8 Nov 2012
Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you’ll find another story.
Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris’s exceptional talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns.Sensuous, mischievous, uproarious and wry, these are tales that combine the everyday with the unexpected; wild fantasy with bittersweet reality.
Come to the house where it is Christmas all year round; meet the ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline; be spooked by a newborn baby created with sugar, spice and lashings of cake. Worry for a young girl in the Congo who rides the rapids to earn a crust of bread; and spy on Norse gods battling each other for survival in modern Manhattan. In her first short-story collection since Jigs & Reels, let Joanne Harris ensnare and delight you with the variety and inventiveness of her storytelling.
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Harris's 16 interconnected short stories are witty and magical.
- Vogue
Wickedly imaginative...From the man who decides every day will be Christmas, to the baby conjured of sugar and spice, these fantastical tales still speak volumes about everyday life.
- Glamour Magazine
A moreish collection...comical, scary, sad and surreal
- Independent
A delicious collection...Funny, sad, touching and thoughtful, these cleverly wrought tales once again confirm Joanne Hariis as a skilled storyteller.
- Choice
Joanne Harris is the author of Chocolat (made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp), and ten more bestselling novels. Her work is published in over fifty countries and has sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide. Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Yorkshire with her family, plays bass in a band first formed when she was sixteen, works in a shed in her garden, likes musical theatre and old sci-fi, drinks rather too much caffeine, spends far too much time online and occasionally dreams of faking her own death and going to live in Hawaii.
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
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