Flyaway - by Kathleen Jennings (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers-a note that makes question her memories of their disappearance and her father's departure. A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live-and even thrive-under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist!</b><br><b><br>A 2020 Crawford Award Finalist</b> <p/><b>An Indie Next Pick!</b> <p/><b>Named a Best of 2020 Pick for <i>NPR</i></b><b> <p/>Transformation, enchantment, and the emotional truths of family history teem in Kathleen Jennings' stunning debut, <i>Flyaway</i>.</b> <p/><b>Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it.--Kelly Link</b> <p/><b>"An unforgettable tale, as beautiful as it is thorny." --<i>The New York Times</i> Book Review</b> <p/>In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers--a note that makes her question memories of their disappearance and her father's departure. <p/>A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live--and even thrive--under a burning sun, <i>Flyaway</i> introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles. <i>Flyaway </i>enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>A 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist!</b><br><b><br>A 2020 Crawford Award Finalist</b> <p/><b>An Indie Next Pick!</b> <p/><b>Named a Best of 2020 Pick for <i>NPR</i></b> <p/>"An unforgettable tale, <b>as beautiful as it is thorny</b>." --<i>The New York Times</i> Book Review <p/><b>A superbly told tale of folklore-infused fantasy</b>, full of rising dread, set in a sharply observed Australian outback town.--Garth Nix <p/>[<i>Flyaway</i>] will leave you feeling deeply satisfied. --<i>Washington Independent Review of Books</i> <p/>Katheleen Jennings' writing is highly poetic and her imagery superb... <b>[and contains] revelations that even the most seasoned genre reader won't see coming</b>. More like this, please. --<i>Rue Morgue</i> <p/>A fairytale wrapped about in riddles and other thorny bits of enchantments and stories, but none of them quite like any you've heard before. Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and <b>her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it</b>.--Kelly Link <p/>Half mystery, half fairy tale, <b>all exquisitely rendered and full of teeth</b>.--Holly Black <p/><i>Flyaway</i> is a novel that knows any story is only as truthful as the person who tells it; that <b>the tale itself survives as a parasite does, jumping from person to person and host to host</b>.--<i>Australian Book Review</i> <p/>In spellbinding, lyrical prose Jennings lulls readers into this rich, dreamlike world. <b>Lovers of contemporary fairy tales will find this a masterful work</b>.--<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review <p/>Achingly gorgeous. . . . As tangled and densely interwoven as a tuft of dusty fur snagged on a barbed wire fence, Jennings' debut novella is both deeply indebted to the Australian gothic tradition and vibrantly, bewitchingly itself. <b>A dark, delicious shrike's feast of a fairy tale</b>.--Brooke Bolander <p/>Brilliant light washes through these pages, a perfect foil for the novella's shadowy, all-too-serious battles of class, community and family. Sly visitations from imported, half-naturalised folklore add further layers of mystery and wonder to <b>a more-than-magical tale of history's grip, the land's memory, and the harm we cannot help but do to ourselves and each other</b>.--Margo Lanagan <p/>I love the imagery, the atmosphere, the incredible tactile quality of the world as described, the structure. . . . <b>Some of the best prose I've ever read.</b>--<i>Smart Bitches, Trashy Books</i> <p/>A darkly enchanting and unexpected tale. <b>A gothic <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> meets <i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i>.</b> With <i>Flyaway</i> Jennings takes old threads and weaves them into something new and exciting.--Angela Slatter <p/><b>I feel as if a very new voice has whispered a very old secret in my ear</b>, and I'll never be able to un-hear it. Nor will I ever want to.--C. S. E. Cooney <p/><b>Shirley Jackson Down Under</b>: a brooding, bruising fairy tale about blood and history and sharp-toothed things waiting in the woods. I loved it.--Alix E. Harrow <p/>"I finished [Kathleen Jenning's] Flyaway last night and haven't been able to start anything new yet because <b>I don't want to leave that lush creepiness behind</b>."--Sarah Pinsker <p/>An exquisite gem of a book, a story which hoards its secrets and reveals its answers slowly, patiently, rewarding the reader who's willing to go on a strange and haunting journey. . . . <b>Subtly sinister and utterly, utterly magical</b>.--<i>Grimdark Magazine</i> <p/>Jennings's debut novella is pure, poetic Australian gothic, filled with <b>haunting emotions, fairy-tale action, and sharp prose</b>.--<i>Library Journal</i> <p/>A deliciously mysterious <b>Gothic fairy tale wrapped in elegantly descriptive prose</b>.--<i>Booklist</i> <p/><b>Part ghost story, part murder mystery and part fairy tale</b>, <i>Flyaway </i>feels like a perfect combination of all Jennings' experiences and imagination.--<i>Book Page <p/></i><b>An entrancing and unforgettable debut.</b>--<i>The Southern Bookseller Review<br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator in Brisbane, Australia. She was raised on fairy tales on a cattle station in Western Queensland, and practiced as a translator and a lawyer (which is all stories, isn't it?) before returning to undertake a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing (Australian Gothic Literature) at the University of Queensland. Her short stories have appeared on Tor.com, in <i>Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet</i>, in anthologies from Candlewick, Ticonderoga and Fablecroft Publishing, and elsewhere. <i>Flyaway </i>is her first novel. As an illustrator, she has been shortlisted for one Hugo and three World Fantasy Awards, and has won several Ditmars.
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