num_pages: 238
description: The remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time and place.The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse and the salty bite of the sea. Harsh winds scour the rocky coastline. The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature and its enchantments.Verlyn Webbe born with a wing for an arm unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull and dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms haunted by horses and her father's wishes.As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation their earthy desires resentments idle gossip and painful losses create a staggeringly original world. Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore but entirely wonderfully her own Zoe Gilbert's Folk is a dark beautiful and intoxicating debut.
language: English
title: Folk
publisher: Bloomsbury UK