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The Limits of Enchantment (Hardcover)

by Graham Joyce (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books (22 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743463447
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743463447
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,097,589 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Joyce is one of our great novelists, one of the treasures of our time" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Some wonderful social comedy as well as a sense of potential betrayal. He is a writer fascinated by his factual material, and by characters who would not be the same without it." (Roz Kaveney The Independent )

"Intricate, involving.. Joyce has produced a wonderful portrait of England. This remarkable novel should scoop Joyce out of the dusty corners of bookshops and introduce his work to a much wider readership." (Josh Lacey The Guardian )

"Joyce unfolds a beguiling story of witchraft with the kind of confidence and skill that comes from depth of experience. A very fine, very subtle novel." (SFX )

"Joyce is one of our great novelists, one of the treasures of our time" (Rick Kleffel Trashotron )

"Joyce's ear for dialect and his loving recreation of an almost forgotten world enable him to transcend genre. A sly comedy of manners with magical flavourings." (Lorne Jackson The Sunday Mercury )

"Mystery and possibly magic aside, this is a quiet tale of a journey into womanhood and of bucolic England during a period of change." (Simon Baker TLS )

"As solid, balanced, and finely tuned as anything Joyce has written, and that is tantamount to saying it's about as finely tuned as any recent fiction we have." (Gary K Wolfe LOCUS )

"Joyce weaves a vibrant, skilfull portrait of both worlds, peopled with credible and fascinating characters so convincing you'd believe he'd lived through it. The book is gripping, and the writing from this one-man genre astonisingly accomplished. It will live with you long after you grudgingly turn that final page. Graham Joyce is a magnificent writer. A national treasure." (Rob Grant Dreamwatch ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magical realism, 21 April 2006
By Libran Librarian (Devizes, Wiltshire) - See all my reviews
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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