Maiden, Mother, Crone

A Collection

Joanne Harris

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Gollancz
14 January 2025

Turn the page, and step into a stunning, evocative world where nature, magic and fate are inextricably linked, and one wrong - or right - step can take you from the modern world into one filled with both danger and wonder.

This beautiful volume contains the award-winning novellas A Pocketful of Crows, The Blue Salt Road and Orfeia. Fully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, with a brand new introduction by the author and three original short stories, this is a landmark collection which gloriously reimagines traditional British folktales into a timely, relevant and powerful new stories.

'Perfect reading for a chilly autumn evening' thesenovelthoughts

'Stunning and original modern fairytales' calturnerreviews

'Thought-provoking and evocative' Tor.com

By: Joanne Harris
Imprint: Gollancz
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 411g
ISBN: 9781399614016
ISBN 10: 1399614010
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 14 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JOANNE HARRIS is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE by the Queen.

Reviews for Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Collection

Orfeia is tragic, emotional, beautiful, thought-provoking, moving and poignant * Bookmarks and Stages * This dreamy, melancholy novella is saturated with sacrifice, richness and a sense of layered worlds. * Metro *