Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
Description
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times
DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.
Product Details
Price
$21.99
$20.45
Publisher
Virago Press (UK)
Publish Date
June 21, 2022
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.6 X 1.2 inches | 1.05 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780349013596
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About the Author
Together the authors of Hag have published over 50 works, with several national bestsellers. They have won awards including the AM Heath Prize for fiction, Harper's Bazaar short story prize Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Lambda Literary Award, Polari Prize, Saboteur Award, Scott Prize, Gavin Wallace Fellowship, Goldsmith Prize, Women's Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize, Bristol Short Story Prize, and Betty Trask Award; and they have been nominated for countless others.
Reviews
Freshly feminist--Times Literary Supplement
Leaves the reader yearning to believe in the redemptive power of magic--Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
Sharp writing and cleverly done--Spectator
Vivid, perceptive. At the heart of each mystical story is a woman, who, often on the cusp of a new beginning, remains haunted by traumas from her past.--New Statesman
Simply and beautifully executed--Observer
A thoroughly original package that had a hint of Angela Carter--The Times T2
Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang--Sunday Times
It's easy to get lost in the stories from diverse voices--Guardian
Relevant and intriguing--New Statesman
Hag swarms with mermaids, boggarts and shape-shifters but it also explores the hopes and visceral dreads from which those creatures emerged in the human imagination. Daisy Johnson's wittily disquieting take on The Green Children of Woolpit is a masterclass.--Susan Flockhart, Glasgow Herald
Leaves the reader yearning to believe in the redemptive power of magic--Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
Sharp writing and cleverly done--Spectator
Vivid, perceptive. At the heart of each mystical story is a woman, who, often on the cusp of a new beginning, remains haunted by traumas from her past.--New Statesman
Simply and beautifully executed--Observer
A thoroughly original package that had a hint of Angela Carter--The Times T2
Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang--Sunday Times
It's easy to get lost in the stories from diverse voices--Guardian
Relevant and intriguing--New Statesman
Hag swarms with mermaids, boggarts and shape-shifters but it also explores the hopes and visceral dreads from which those creatures emerged in the human imagination. Daisy Johnson's wittily disquieting take on The Green Children of Woolpit is a masterclass.--Susan Flockhart, Glasgow Herald
