Susan Price

Head and Tales (Folk and Fairy Tales, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Linnet begs his mates to cut off his head, so his children can carry it with them on the road.

It's 1770 and Linnet lies dying beside the 'stinking ditch' he has helped to dig for miles. His last desperate wish is for his children to go home to his mother, whom they have never seen.

But how are they to reach her safely, without money or knowing the way?

His work-mates think his request is fever-talk but still... A promise to a dying mate is a serious thing. So, when the children start their long walk, they carry their father's head with them, wrapped in his old work-shirt.

What use is a dead man's head when the children meet danger and difficulty?

It's then the head opens its eyes and tells stories.

Stories have power.

Almost as much power as a father's love.

Susan Price has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian prize and her many books have been sold around the world. She has a life-long love of folk-tale and legend and has published several collections of retellings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Susan Price
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798700635950
• Artikelnr.: 67340776

Autorenporträt

I was firmly convinced that I decided to become an author at the age of seven, after reading Kipling's Jungle Books - until I was talking to my aunt recently.

She told me that she remembered me marching up to her and my grandmother, putting my hands on my hips and announcing,'When I grow up I'm going to be a writer!'

"You were four,"she said.

Whether four or seven when I made the decision, I never wavered thereafter. I have always been single-minded. But bloody-minded single-mindedness is an essential quality in a writer. Without it, you probably wouldn't even finish a first draft.

My father signed my first publishing contract, because I was 16, and under-age. I'd have been fairly happy if that had been my one and only book. But luck was with me, and I've gone on to publish something like 60 books, for different ages and in different genres; and am now self-publishing on Kindle - something that wasn't even envisaged in science-fiction when my first book came out. Life remains interesting!

Find out more about Susan Price's books at her website: https://www.susanpriceauthor.com/

She can be found on Facebook at: http://on.fb.me/TK3SBj

Follow her on Twitter at @priceclan.

She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective, whose blogs can be found here: http://bit.ly/GD4LUv