num_pages: 223
description: Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants straightening shower curtains and worrying about frayed carpets. A teenager's growing pains are sometimes even bigger than him. And on a windy beach a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes regrets and memories are entangled with catfish wrecker's lamps standing stones and baying hounds and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea. This luminous startling and utterly spellbinding debut collection introduces in Lucy Wood a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction. Lucy Wood has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Exeter University. She grew up in Cornwall. Diving Belles is her first work.
language: English
title: Diving Belles
publisher: Bloomsbury UK