The Girl with Glass Feet: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize
Jan 2010 · Atlantic Books Ltd
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Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)
Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)
Shortlisted Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012)
A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hold of Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass. Fragile and determined to find a cure, she returns to the strange, enchanted island where she believes the transformation began, in search of reclusive Henry Fuwa, the one man who might just be able to help...
Instead she meets Midas Crook, and another transformation begins: as Midas helps Ida come to terms with her condition, they fall in love. What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast.
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)
Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)
Shortlisted Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012)
A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hold of Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass. Fragile and determined to find a cure, she returns to the strange, enchanted island where she believes the transformation began, in search of reclusive Henry Fuwa, the one man who might just be able to help...
Instead she meets Midas Crook, and another transformation begins: as Midas helps Ida come to terms with her condition, they fall in love. What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast.
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)
Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010)
Shortlisted Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012)
A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hol...
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7 reviews
Rebecca Young
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March 22, 2015
I LOVED parts of this... But felt like like the parts I really enjoyed, they were mostly really unneccesary and or left a little hanging, such as the moth winged buffalo... What was the point? and what was the creature that turns all it looks at white? Hmm.
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Kara Beasley
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April 2, 2015
One of the oddest books I've read, but in a pleasantly surprising kinda way.
Úna Ryan
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March 26, 2016
I'm still grieving the end of this novel. Touching, magical and beautiful. The kind of novel aspiring writers dream of writing.
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About the author
Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.
Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.
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