![]() ![]() Their sister can restore them, but the only way is to weave shirts for them out of nettles (or something similar), and cannot speak (or smile, possibly) until they’re complete. ![]() The original story is “The Six Swans” (not seven?), in which an evil step-mother turns her husband’s six sons into birds. The book uses one of my favorite devices: it takes a well-known story, in this case a fairy tale, and re-imagines it, pushes it out further. Given some of the events in Susan Dexter’s The True Knight, I thought of Nicholas Stuart Gray’s The Seventh Swan, and pulled it off the shelf. ![]() This is such a perfect quote – it’s wonderfully true. From the old standby, Wikipedia: “Neil Gaiman has written that Gray ‘is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult’.” ![]()
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