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I read this straight through in a few hours. Very enjoyable. I've read loads of fairy tale retellings and other books grounded in fairy lore and this novel stands in good company with excellent ones, if not the best, because, you know Angela Carter is unique.
Anyway, I especially appreciate a couple of elements. Joyce takes an incident (15-year-old Tara disappears and returns 20 years later) and explores it from various perspectives. The reader gets to sort it out for themselves. I like how Joyce ...more
Anyway, I especially appreciate a couple of elements. Joyce takes an incident (15-year-old Tara disappears and returns 20 years later) and explores it from various perspectives. The reader gets to sort it out for themselves. I like how Joyce ...more
This is the story of Tara, who disappears for 20 years and returns to her family home, unaged, on Christmas, with a story of having been abducted by faeries. The story is told from varying perspectives - Tara, her brother Peter, and her old boyfriend Richie. A couple of chapters are her psychiatrist's narrative of his diagnosis, and I found that those interrupted the flow of the story and didn't particularly do much for me. Other than those chapters, it's a pretty quick-moving and engaging story
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Interesting story about a girl who reappears after being missing for twenty years and her story of where she was.
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