The brides of Rollrock Island
By: Margo Lanagan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780375869198; 9780375969195; 9780375989308
Subjects: Magic; JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Other; JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic; Fiction; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings; Witches; Islands; Selkies
Description: "On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives.  The  witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she. He will be equally ensnared. And the witch will have her true  payment"--