num_pages: 312
description: In her vivid and sly gentle and wise long-anticipated first collection Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailorsthe light out a window the two strokes it takes to turn a small boatand finds the ghosts haunting them the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories here are tricksters and gardeners faeries and musicians all glittering and sparkling finding beauty and hope and always unexpected a touch of wild magic.Contents:Young Woman in a GardenThe Ghost of Cwmlech ManorThe Red PianoLa Fe VerteWalpurgis AfternoonThe Parwat RubyThe Fairy Cony-CatcherSacred HarpThe Printers DaughterNanny Peters and the Feathery BrideMiss Carstairs and the MermanThe Maid on the ShoreThe Fiddler of Bayou TecheLands End
language: English
title: Young Woman in a Garden
publisher: Small Beer Press