The Fortunate Isles

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Fortunate Isles</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> brings together fourteen tales of myth and ancient magic from the shores of Barradoon a frost-rimed village set against a storm-wracked sea where selkies kelpies mermaids and other fey folk shape the course of human lives.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Resources are scarce here; the sea takes as much as it provides. Fish friends families. Whatever seafarers can't fetch landlubbers must bargain and scrounge to obtain. Young men wed the harpies hatched from eggs found on remote cliffs witches warp the threads of fate earthbound children dream of flight and unfaithful spouses learn the fatal folly of betrayal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Seen through the eyes of mothers daughters lovers and sailors Barradoon is a town that refuses to be defined by any singular story. Each new corner hides something strange angry or touched by the ocean's strange magic and tension simmers between the town's human and inhuman residents.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lisa L. Hannett's storytelling is deft lyrical and starkly beautiful even in its darkest moments and the stories collected here are sure to please fans and new readers alike.</span></p>