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Longlisted for the "Guardian" First Book Award 2009, this is for fans of "The Time Traveller's Wife" and "The Memory Keeper's Daughter". Ida MacLaird is slowly turning to glass; as she tries to come to terms with her condition, she falls in love with Midas Crook.
Synopsis
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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Publication Date:
01-Jan-2010
ISBN:
9781843549208
Guardian review
The Girl with Glass Feet
Catherine Taylor the guardian Fri 22 May 2009
Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story so deft it defies the obvious label "quirky". Set on a fictional northern archipelago, the world conjured up is one of frozen beauty with small Arctic creatures melting into the snowbound woods. Into this landscape steps Ida MacLaird, whose body, beginning with her carefully concealed feet, is inexplicably turning to glass. Photographer Midas, estranged from his reclusive mother, is fixated on his hated father's suicide. Falling tentatively in love with Ida, he embarks on a desperate quest to save her. The key to Ida's predicament lies with the mysterious Henry, and the lovers are further thwarted by Ida's sinister, self-appointed guardian. A magical fable of fate and resignation.
