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Hag

Forgotten Folktales Retold
  • Authors
    • Daisy Johnson
    • Kirsty Logan
    • Emma Glass
    • Eimear McBride
    • Natasha Carthew
    • Mahsuda Snaith
    • Naomi Booth
    • Liv Little
    • Imogen Hermes Gowar
    • Irenosen Okojie
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'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times

DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES
, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men.

From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today.

'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times

'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

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  • ASM
  • CAN
  • GUM
  • MNP
  • UMI
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  • MHL
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  • USA
  • VIR
  • Published: Oct 08 2020
  • Pages: 304
  • 218 x 138mm
  • ISBN: 9780349013596
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Press Reviews

  • Sunday Times
    Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang
  • The Times T2
    A thoroughly original package that had a hint of Angela Carter
  • Spectator
    Sharp writing and cleverly done
  • New Statesman
    Relevant and intriguing
  • Guardian
    It's easy to get lost in the stories from diverse voices
  • Observer
    Simply and beautifully executed
  • Times Literary Supplement
    Freshly feminist
  • Sarah Gilmartin

    Irish Times
    Leaves the reader yearning to believe in the redemptive power of magic
  • New Statesman
    Vivid, perceptive. At the heart of each mystical story is a woman, who, often on the cusp of a new beginning, remains haunted by traumas from her past.
  • Susan Flockhart

    Glasgow Herald
    Hag swarms with mermaids, boggarts and shape-shifters but it also explores the hopes and visceral dreads from which those creatures emerged in the human imagination. Daisy Johnson's wittily disquieting take on The Green Children of Woolpit is a masterclass.