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A fabulous debut of folk tales and fantasies by an award winning author and illustrator.

Small fires start in the hearts of Kathleen Jenningss characters and irresistibly spread to those around them. Journeys are taken, debts repaid, disguises put on, and lessons offered although not often learned in these fantastic tales. Jennings's confident voice lulls readers into stepping off the known paths to find "Undine Love, The Heart of Owl Abbas, and further unexpected places and people.

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"Women with guts and men of good fortune in search of their personal treasures."
-- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Kathleen Jennings's books:

"An unforgettable tale, as beautiful as it is thorny." --The New York Times Book Review

"In spellbinding, lyrical prose Jennings lulls readers into this rich, dreamlike world. Lovers of contemporary fairy tales will find this a masterful work."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"I love the imagery, the atmosphere, the incredible tactile quality of the world as described, the structure. . . . Some of the best prose I've ever read."--Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

"Part ghost story, part murder mystery and part fairy tale, Flyaway feels like a perfect combination of all Jennings' experiences and imagination."--Book Page

"An entrancing and unforgettable debut." -- The Southern Bookseller Review

"Jennings's debut novella is pure, poetic Australian gothic, filled with haunting emotions, fairy-tale action, and sharp prose." -- Library Journal

"A deliciously mysterious Gothic fairy tale wrapped in elegantly descriptive prose." -- Booklist

"Half mystery, half fairy tale, all exquisitely rendered and full of teeth." -- Holly Black, author of Book of Night

"A fairytale wrapped about in riddles and other thorny bits of enchantments and stories, but none of them quite like any you've heard before. Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it." -- Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

"A superbly told tale of folklore-infused fantasy, full of rising dread, set in a sharply observed Australian outback town." -- Garth Nix

"A darkly enchanting and unexpected tale. A gothic Alice in Wonderland meets Picnic at Hanging Rock. With Flyaway Jennings takes old threads and weaves them into something new and exciting." -- Angela Slatter

"I feel as if a very new voice has whispered a very old secret in my ear, and I'll never be able to un-hear it. Nor will I ever want to." -- C. S. E. Cooney

Author Bio

Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator and writer based in Brisbane, Australia. As an illustrator, she has received the World Fantasy and Ditmar awards and has been shortlisted for the Hugo and Locus awards. As a writer, she has won a British Fantasy and Ditmar awards and has been shortlisted for World Fantasy, the Courier-Mail People's Choice Book of the Year Award, the Crawford, and Aurealis awards.