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Fifteen-year-old Liga, emotionally and physically battered from bearing two children,one begot through incest, the other through rape, is magically granted her own heaven,a gentle, patient version of the rough world she once knew. Here there are no brutal fathers, no leering village boys; there is only a beautiful little cottage in the middle of a wood. Here she brings up her two daughters, fair Branza and dark Urdda, in perfect peace. But the membrane between Liga s heaven and the real world has grown thin over the years, allowing some who are not as pure-hearted as Liga and her daughters to enter. And likewise, the girls discover they can pass through into the real world of Liga s tortured past.
Now, having known heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?
Tender Morsels is an astonishing novel, fraught with the tension between beauty and horror, violence and tenderness.
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'a beautiful but very unsettling novel' --Fortean Times
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Published for adults by Cape simultaneously with the Young Adult edition by David Fickling Books, Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid novel from an author acclaimed for the fearless range of her imagination, the emotional intensity of her stories and the virtuosity of her writing.
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Tender Morsels
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Allen & Unwin, Australia
(2008)
ISBN 10: 1741147964
ISBN 13: 9781741147964
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 362 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2008. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Liga is a young peasant girl of no consequence. Abused by her father (who plies her with potions to induce miscarriages that destroy all evidence of his shame), then raped by callous youths, she has two beautiful babies. One day she is saved by natural magic and, in exchange for her earthly life, her world is changed into her own personal Heaven, given to her by natural magic. Safe in this nurturing world, Liga builds a life of loving domesticity for her daughters, gentle Branza and curious Urdda, who grow up there, protected from all that once harmed Liga. But back in the real world, hedge-witch Muddy Annie, begged by a desperate, debt-ridden friend, tries sending him to his own Heaven. Her botched attempt puts him instead into the world of Liga and her daughters, and gives him on arrival the power to turn wildflowers to coins, frog-eggs to pearls, tiny birds to precious stones and to pass back into the real world with the wealth he gathers. But his numerous journeys create perforations in the skin between the real world and the magic world. Although these generally have no effect, on Bear Day every spring the fur-costumed Bears running the ritual chase through the village sometimes tumble through, transformed from lusty young men into real, wild bears in Liga's Heaven. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9781741147964. Inventory No: 16080542. Seller Inventory # 16080542
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