Diving Belles: And Other Stories

by Lucy Wood

Book Overview

In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth.
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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547595530
• ISBN13: 9780547595535
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"