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Diving Belles
by Lucy Wood
Published by Mariner
230p, b&w, softcover, 5.5"x8"
$14.95
"Straying husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back,
for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep a
fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains and
worrying about frayed carpets. A mother, who seems alone and lonely,
may be rubbing sore muscles or holding the hands of her invisible lover
as he touches her neck. Phantom hounds roam the moors and, on a windy
beach, a boy and his grandmother beat back despair with an old white
door.
In these stories, the line between the real and the
imagined is blurred as Lucy Wood takes us to Cornwall’s ancient coast,
building on its rich storytelling history and recasting its myths in
thoroughly contemporary ways. Calling forth the fantastic and
fantastical, she mines these legends for that bit of magic remaining in
all our lives
