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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (20 Jan 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0575072318
ISBN-13: 978-0575072312
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 495,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Joyce is one of our great novelists, one of the treasures of our time"

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The best novel yet from a World Fantasy Award and four time British Fantasy Award winning author.

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Magical realism, 21 April 2006

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This review is from: The Limits of Enchantment (Paperback)

In Fern Cullen, the story's narrator, Graham Joyce has found a heartwarming and realistic voice. The story is about Fern and her adoptive "Mammy" who live on the outskirts of a village in the 1960's. They are slightly outside of society because they practise the old arts of hedgerow medicine. The pair have in many ways been left behind by time but they are largely left in peace by the villagers until one of Mammy's potions goes fatally wrong. Joyce's descriptions of Mammy's herbal concoctions and their uses are well researched and believable. Fern battles with her own doubts about the magic they perform. When Mammy is taken ill, Fern is thrust into the real world of 1960's Britain. In some ways she is very innocent in the ways of the world and yet this is in contrast to the ways of the sage which she has learned from Mammy.

As a reader you warm to the plight of Fern but Joyce does not let the character or his readers down with this fine book.

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