2nd September 2010

Catalogue > Fiction

The Girl with Glass Feet

Ali Shaw

'Magical' Guardian

Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa First Novel Award, this is a novel to fall in love with - for anyone who loved the escapism of The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hold of Ida MacLaird – she is slowly turning into glass. Fragile and determined to find a cure, she returns to the strange, enchanted island where she believes the transformation began, in search of reclusive Henry Fuwa, the one man who might just be able to help…

Instead she meets Midas Crook, and another transformation begins: as Midas helps Ida come to terms with her condition, they fall in love. What they need most is time – and time is slipping away fast.

About the author

Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.

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