| Edition |
First Mariner Books edition. |
| Description |
223 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of stories that explores how magic, myth, and folklore shape the everyday lives of people in Cornwall, from a lonely massage therapist who holds the hands of an invisible lover to a boy and his grandmother who combat despair with an old white door on a windy beach. |
| Contents |
Diving belles -- Countless stones -- Of mothers and little people -- Lights in other's people's houses -- Magpies -- The giant's boneyard -- Beachcombing -- Notes from the house spirits -- The wishing tree -- Blue moon -- Wisht -- Some drolls are like that and some are like this. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780547595535 paperback |
|
0547595530 |
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