The Girl with Glass Feet

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'Ali Saw has written a rare orchid of book, beautiful and eccentric and exquisitely sad.' Patrick NessA mysterious and frightening metamorphosis has befallen Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass. She returns to St Hauda's Land, Where she believes the glass first took hold, in the hope of finding the one man who might just be able to cure her . . . Midas Crook is a lonely young islander. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defences. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart, and they begin to fall in love . . . What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of glass The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and gripping first novel, an enchanting love story to treasure.

Author Bio

Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. Since graduating he has worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.