The Gracekeepers
Author(s): Kirsty Logan
This is the magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home. The sea has flooded the earth. North lives on a circus boat, floating between the scattered islands that remain. She dances with her beloved bear, while the rest of the crew trade dazzling and death-defying feats for food from the islanders. However, North has a secret that could capsize her life with the circus. Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, with only the birds and the fish for company. As penance for a terrible mistake, she works as a gracekeeper, tending the graves of those who die at sea. What drove her from home is also what pulls her towards North. When a storm creates a chance meeting between the two girls, their worlds change. They are magnetically drawn to one another, and the promise of a new life. But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.
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The magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home.
"The Gracekeepers is an enchanting, magical tale, and Kirsty Logan's writing is beautiful. Compelling and vivid, with Scottish lore woven lyrically throughout, The Gracekeepers explores such issues as loneliness and isolation, our innate tendencies to create divisions between ourselves and others, the consequences of long-ago actions, and, ultimately, the restoration of hope." -- Sara Gruen "It is a bewitching tale" -- Antonia Charlesworth Big Issue "Beautiful and bewitching: read it and be swept away on a magical wave of love and language" Bookseller "In luscious, vivid prose, Logan brings to mind Angela Carter, or Atwood or Winterson at their best" Independent "The Gracekeepers is a seemingly impossible combination of the lyrical and the gritty, the magical and the brutal. In haunting prose Kirsty Logan has woven a compelling, emotionally dense fairytale that kept me enthralled 'til the last page" -- Tamar Cohen
Kirsty Logan is a writer, performer, literary editor, writing mentor and book reviewer. Her first book, The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize and was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She regularly performs her stories at events and festivals throughout the world. She lives in Glasgow with her fiancee and their rescue puppy. www.kirstylogan.com @kirstylogan
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Harvill Secker
- : 0.405
- : 30 November 2014
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2015
- : 01 October 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kirsty Logan
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 304