The Gracekeepers

(Paperback)

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The magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home. 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

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The Gracekeepers is enchanting and heart-tugging. If you love Margaret Atwood youll love this * Sunday Telegraph *
A wondrous read * Stylist *
A wondrous read * Stylist *
Clever and original -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Truly magical * Heat *
A bold, fresh new talent a wild, original imagination * Independent on Sunday *
A gorgeously melancholy novel, a post-apocalyptic fairy tale of mermen and mourning birds, ghost cities on the ocean floor, and precious soil. I envy the reader who is just now picking it up. * Herald *
Highly original ... set in a haunting sea-world both familiar and mysterious -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Rich and strange... memorable and beautiful * Daily Mail *
Everything about this book is beautiful: the language is a poetic and diaphanous as nature and the many characters who contribute to the story are utterly authentic in this magic realist world. Every one of them stays with you, leaving you craving more about their back stories and their fates This is a delicious piece of work from a supremely talented young writer * Scotsman *
A delightful fantasy in the mould of The Night Circus * Red *
[A] remarkable story about love, family, roots and obligations... A colourful magic realist novel about finding your place * Diva *
Lyrical and moving * ELLE *

Author Bio

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family. @kirstylogan www.kirstylogan.com