The Girl with Glass Feet

The Girl with Glass Feet

by Ali Shaw (Author)

Synopsis

A mysterious and frightening alchemical metamorphosis has befallen Ida Maclaird - she is slowly turning into glass, from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda's Land, where she believes the glass first took hold, in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner, who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart, and they begin to fall in love...What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and gripping first novel, a love story to treasure.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 May 2009

ISBN 10: 1843549182
ISBN 13: 9781843549185
Book Overview: The Girl with Glass Feet is an enthralling and eerie fairytale, a first novel of remarkable and original imagination, for all those who fell in love with The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Read it and be cast under its spell...
Prizes: Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2010 and British Book Design & Production Award: Literature 2009.

Media Reviews

Fantastically imagined.... The hybrid form of the book-fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy-impresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real.... As Ida turns to glass, Midas must continue his own transformation, from hardened to human. The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved. -Robin Romm, New York Times Book Review

Ali Shaw has created a memorable addition to [the] fabulist pantheon in his gorgeous first novel, The Girl with Glass Feet. ... Over the course of this eerie, bewitching novel, the mixture of love and grief and the imminence of death become as memorable as Ida's mysterious, dreadful transformation and Midas's more achingly human one ... Shaw acknowledges the influence of writers like Andersen, Kafka and Borges (Shaw's menagerie of perfectly detailed, marve

Author Bio
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.