Swanfolk

<p>'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell<br><br><b>An astonishing mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.</b><br><br><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE*</b><br><br>In the not-too-distant future a young spy named El&#237;sabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life.<br><br>El&#237;sabet likes to take long solitary walks near the lake. One day she sees two creatures emerging from the water half-human half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality.<br><br>Pulled into the monomaniacal and often violent quest of the swanfolk El&#237;sabet finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings and a past life she has been trying to evade.<br><br>'&#211;marsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi <i>New York Review of Books</i></p>