The Brides of Rollrock Island

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 305 pages
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.

Margo Lanagan weaves an extraordinary tale of desire, despair, and transformation. With devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals characters capable of unspeakable cruelty, but also unspoken love.

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About the author (2012)

Margo Lanagan was born in Waratah, New South Wales, Australia in 1960. Her works include Black Juice, which won two World Fantasy Awards and a Printz Honor Award in 2006; White Time; Tender Morsels, which won a Printz Honor Award in 2009 and a World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2009; and Sea-Hearts, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 2010. She is also the co-author of the Zeroes series written with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti.