Tooth and Claw

A tale of contention over love and money―among dragons. Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The Kings Peace acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson Robin Hobb and Ken MacLeod. In 2002 she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father of a son who goes to law for his inheritance a son who agonizes over his fathers deathbed confession a daughter who falls in love a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon red in tooth and claw.. Here is a world of politics and train stations of churchmen and family retainers of courtship and country houses...in which on the death of an elder family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which societys high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children which they do with ceremony and relish growing stronger thereby.. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.