ARGONAUT BOOKS

Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War II raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Reviews Lyrical and urgentThe TimesBrilliant, highly intelligent, fiercely personal . . . GorgeousUrsula K. Le GuinByatt has made . . . an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs gods?ObserverByatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jewelled one m...Read More