Queen of Stones
By (Author) Emma Tennant
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th September 2011
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
160
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
180g
On the weekend of October 17 1981, a party of girls who had set out on a sponsored walk from Beaminster became separated from their leader and disappeared into the worst fog ever recorded on the west coast of Dorset. For days search parties of anxious parents and police failed to trace the girls. Those that returned, finally, could give no coherent account of their strange exile from home.
'Lord of the Flies was a book of this kind.'- Observer
'A compulsively readable work of the imagination.' - Elaine Feinstein, Times
'A delicate interweaving of Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks, and 'Good Queen Bess'. its sombre moods and haunting melodies give it a power beyond the range of mere intellect.' Literary Review