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Gina
Gina asked Juliet Marillier:

Your books are some of my favourites due to the blend of folklore and mythology. I'm doing the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2019 and am hoping you could recommend some of your favourite folklore and mythology books to stretch my reading in that category? Thanks in advance.

Juliet Marillier Here are a few to start you off:

Seven Miles of Steel Thistles by Katherine Langrish. This is both a published book and a blog. Very entertaining as well as scholarly. (A recent publication, just google the title to find it)
Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories by Diane Purkiss (published by Penguin, 2001)
The Vanishing People: A Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefs by Katharine M. Briggs (Batsford 1978)
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers by Marina Warner (Vintage, 1995)
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Hi Juliet! When will The Amber Owl be available for purchase in the US?

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Ellie asked Juliet Marillier:

Dear Ms. Marillier, I greatly enjoyed your sevenwaters trilogy, particularly the second book. Out of plain curiosity, I noticed that you never even really introduced the character of Fintan, the second son. Is there a reason for this? Inquiringly, ellie

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Briony asked Juliet Marillier:

Hi Juliet, There isn't enough room here to say how much your books mean to me, but I wouldn't be who I am today without them. Thank you, for everything, and for Sevenwaters most of all. I stumbled onto the FAQ page on your website, and under the Errors section, I see you mention a character who dies then miraculously pops up again in a later book – who was this character, before he was renamed in the reprint?

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