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Tangleweed and Brine

By: Deirdre Sullivan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
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Winner of the Book of the Year Award at the Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2018.

Winner of Young Adult Book of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards 2017.

Winner of the Irish Times Ticket Readers’ Choice for Best Young Adult Fiction 2017.

A collection of 13 dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairy tales that follow in the tradition of Angela Carter; stories from Cinderella to Rumpelstiltskin, tales of mermaids and monsters, are given a unique witchy makeover.

©2018 Deirdre Sullivan (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Magic
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In this dark and firmly adult collection of fairytale retellings, Sullivan explores womanhood, misogny, agency, and violence. On the whole, horror leaning and visually rich.

Big trigger warnings for Epilogue (rape) and Riverbed (incest).

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