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Zoe Gilbert

Zoe Gilbert is a fiction writer based in London, UK. Folk (Bloomsbury, February 2018) is her first novel. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and journals around the world, and have won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award 2014. She teaches creative writing at London Lit Lab and for other organisations including the British Library, Arvon Foundation and Mslexia, and is an associate editor at The Word Factory. She is completing a PhD on folk tales in contemporary fiction, and working on her next novel, all about woods.

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Title:

Folk (MP3)

Written by:

Zoe Gilbert 

Read by:

Penelope Rawlins 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours 10 minutes 

MP3 size:

256 MB 

Published:

September 28 2018 

Available Date:

September 28 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489459961 

Genres:

Fiction; Fables & Fairytales 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award.

The remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time and place. The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse and the salty bite of the sea. Harsh winds scour the rocky coastline. The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature and its enchantments. Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm, unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull and dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms, haunted by horses and her father's wishes. As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation, their earthy desires, resentments, idle gossip and painful losses create a staggeringly original world. Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore, but entirely, wonderfully, her own, Zoe Gilbert's Folk is a dark, beautiful and intoxicating debut.

'An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient – drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore - and strikingly contemporary.'
The Financial Times

'Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life ... It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind.'
The Guardian

'Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales.'
The Times Literary Supplement

'That rare thing: genuinely unique. It's part-myth, part-allegory, wholly wonderful.'
The Observer