Waiting on Wednesday (WoW) is a weekly meme hosted by
My posts about my guilty pleasure reading (romantic, often paranormal, novels) can be found here:
My posts about YA/teen titles are here:
Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
My posts about middle grade titles are here:
And now for today's:
Diving Bells: And Other Stories
by Lucy Wood
9780547595535, Mariner Books,
Pub. Date: August 2012
I'm always thrilled to discover a new short story collection, especially one where I might actually enjoy most of the short stories. Here's the publisher's description:
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. Wisht hounds roam the moors, and, on a windy beach,
a boy and his grandmother beat back despair with an old white door.
Diving Belles
is a luminous, spellbinding debut that introduces Lucy Wood as a
spectacular new voice in fiction. In these stories, the line between the
real and the imagined is blurred, as she 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 little bit of magic that
remains in all our lives— if only we can let ourselves see it.
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