Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women - by Sharon Blackie (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In her first work of fiction, the author of <i>If Women Rose Rooted<i> and <i>The Enchanted Life<i>pens 12 stories of transforming women using myth, folklore, and fairy tales from British and Northern European traditions to build upon her radical eco-feminist message.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. <p><strong>'A book for all the wild women ... </strong><em><strong>Foxfire, Wolfskin</strong></em><strong> is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it.' Jackie Morris, co-author of </strong><em><strong>The Lost Words</strong></em></p> <p><em>'</em><em>She lived fully, my fox, and I envied her with all my heart. I wanted to dance with her, sister or lover, across the snow-clad vastness of this land. Together, we'd create the Northern Lights. For that is what foxes do - racing over the fells, whipping up the snow with their tails, the friction of it sending up sparks into the midnight sky. This is what makes the aurora's glow. </em>Revontulet<em>, we call it: foxfire.'</em></p> <p>Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore.</p> <p>Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness and wilderness within.</p> <p>Beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, <em>Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women</em> is Blackie's first collection of short stories.</p> <p><strong>'Sharon Blackie has wrought a new-old magic for our times: glorious, beautiful, passionate myths. They show who we could have been, and they give us a glimpse of a world-that-could-be.' Manda Scott, author of</strong><em><strong> A Treachery of Spies </strong></em><strong>and</strong><em><strong> Boudica</strong></em></p> <p><strong>'A deeply evocative and haunting collection... Part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, Sharon Blackie's</strong> <em><strong>Foxfire, Wolfskin</strong></em><strong> is a deeply evocative and haunting collection. I want to press this powerful book into the hands of everyone I know and say</strong> <em><strong>listen.</strong></em><em><strong>'</strong></em><strong> Holly Ringland, author of</strong> <em><strong>The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart</strong></em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'A jewel for lovers of the mystical, its pages conjure up reimaginings of ancient tales, characters and beliefs from an eco-feminist angle.' Psychologies <p>A master of her craft, Blackie weaves beautiful threads of folklore, psychology, history, philosophy, and much more into this remarkable work, reminding the reader of the magic inherent in all of our lives, whether we live in the suburbs, the city, or a remote wind-swept island. I will walk differently through our world after reading this book. --<strong> Emily Urquhart, author of <em>Beyond the Pale</em> (on <em>The Enchanted Life</em>)</strong><br /><br />A deeply evocative and haunting collection... Part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, Sharon Blackie's <em>Foxfire, Wolfskin</em> is a deeply evocative and haunting collection. Humming with the strength of our immutable voices, each story sings with the transformation that is possible when women take agency of our lives. I want to press this powerful book into the hands of everyone I know and say <em>listen.</em> -- <strong>Holly Ringland, author of <em>The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart</em></strong><br /><br />Sharon Blackie has wrought a new-old magic for our times: glorious, beautiful, passionate myths. They show who we could have been, and they give us a glimpse of a world-that-could-be. --<strong> Manda Scott, author of<em> A Treachery of Spies </em>and<em> Boudica</em></strong><br /><br /><strong>Praise for<em> The Long Delirious Burning Blue</em>: </strong><br /><br />Hugely potent. A tribute to the art of storytelling that is itself an affecting and inspiring story. --<em><strong> Independent on Sunday</strong></em><br /><br />Powerful (reminiscent of <em>The English Patient</em>), filmic, and achieving the kind of symmetry that novels often aspire to, but rarely reach. --<strong><em> The Scotsman</em></strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit. See http: //sharonblackie.net for more information
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