The Gracekeepers
by Kirsty Logan
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Pub Date 23 Apr 2015 | Archive Date 8 May 2015
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
A flooded world.
A floating circus.
Two women in search of a home.
North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.
Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper.
A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life.
But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.
'The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging. If you love Margaret Atwood you’ll love this' Sunday Telegraph
'A wondrous read' Stylist
'Clever and original' The Times
'Truly magical' Heat
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth, Europe excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
The
Gracekeepers is an enchanting, magical tale, and Kirsty Logan’s writing
is beautiful. Compelling and vivid, with Scottish lore woven lyrically
throughout, The Gracekeepers explores such issues as loneliness and
isolation, our innate tendencies to create divisions between ourselves
and others, the consequences of long-ago actions, and, ultimately, the
restoration of hope. - Sara Gruen
It is a bewitching tale - Big Issue
In luscious, vivid prose, Logan brings to mind Angela Carter, or Atwood or Winterson at their best - Independent
The Gracekeepers
is a seemingly impossible combination of the lyrical and the gritty,
the magical and the brutal. In haunting prose Kirsty Logan has woven a
compelling, emotionally dense fairytale that kept me enthralled ‘til the
last page - Tamar Cohen
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A prizewinning young author: Kirsty's short story collection The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
won the Scott Prize and the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story
Collection and was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize.
A bewitching debut for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
A talent to watch: Kirsty was chosen as one of Canongate’s 40 Scottish Storytellers of the Future.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781473520141 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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Fiona B, Librarian
What a beautiful book. From the first few chapters I was hooked. I am quite keen on books where a chapter is told from the point of view of a character, as you can see where/when events meets or coincide.
In a future world where most of the land has been taken over by the sea, two young ladies meet - one, a circus performer from a traveling circus ship, the other a landlocker who performs funeral rites for the dead.
Th descriptions of the circus and it's performers, and of the loneliness of the sea, and those who rely on it, were well built and realistic, with thoughts and feelings that we have all no doubt experienced. It is a slow moving story, with the characters being built up throughout.
A very interesting debut novel, I will definitely be reading more of Kirsty Logan's writing.
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