Cloven Hooves - Softcover

Lindholm, Megan

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598 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553293273 ISBN 13: 9780553293272

Publisher: Spectra, 1991

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Evelyn is a solitary child, preferring to wander in
the woods in all weathers rather than socialise. Her secret is a fantastic companion: a faun with whom she plays in the woods.
Years later Evelyn finds happiness as a wife and mother, but life turns sour when the family move to Tacoma where her husband is asked to fill in at his
father’s business.
Evelyn’s husband’s wish for them to stay permanently with his family causes a rift between them and then a terrible tragedy makes the situation even more impossible.

Miraculously, when she needs a friend, Evelyn’s childhood companion reappears in Tacoma.
Pan, now an adult satyr and a secret friend to both her and her son, eventually becomes her lover.
He leads Evelyn on a odyssey out of her failed marriage to fulfilment in the woods of Alaska.

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Review:

Praise for Megan Lindholm:

‘A bright new talent in the fantasy field’
Charles de Lint

‘Lindholm has created a refreshingly different magic’
Locus

‘Fascinating, absorbing and well written’
Fantasy Review

From the Back Cover:

A REMARKABLE TALE OF THE FANTASTIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE. ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL FATASIES YOU WILL EVER READ.

Growing up unwanted and untamed in Alaska's wild country, Evelyn found refuge in the depths of the forest. She didn't fit in with the other girls – all they could talk about was boys and clothes.

But out in the forest, an escape from isolation, she could spend time with her only true friend: a young faun – half boy, half satyr – called Pan.

Maturity brings unexpected happiness: a husband and a son. But this short trip into normality comes to a shattering end; and Evelyn's real journey begins – away from the mundanities of shopping malls and frilled toilet-rolls, away from appalling parents-in-law and the claustrophobia of their pedantic lives – out into the wilderness with the wildest creature in the world.

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