Travel Light

Perhaps her nurse turned into a bear and carried her away into the forest. Perhaps she was brought up by bears and dragons. Perhaps it was better for her in the end than being a king''s child. Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives as a dragon, converses with Valkyries and avoids troublesome heroes. But the time of myth is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and hoard wealth and possessions, or will she travel light? Weaving folklore, fairytale and Norse myth into a shimmering, witty and slyly subversive tapestry, Travel Light is a rediscovered fantasy classic to treasure.

Autorentext

Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was a distinguished Scottish author whose groundbreaking feminist books of historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi are as radical, free thinking and bohemian as any author writing today. At the time, her radical voice inspired such writers as Ursula K. Le Guin. She also led a fascinating life as a passionate campaigner for a range of social and political issues, such as supporting socialists in 1934's Nazi-threatened Vienna, running a women's sexual health centre, protesting at Greenham Common in her 80s, and being adopted as adviser and mother of the Bakgatla tribe in Botswana. She died in 1999 at the age of 101, with over seventy books to her name.

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'No one knows better how to spin a fairy tale than Naomi Mitchison' OBSERVER

'I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel Light' AMAL EL-MOHTAR

'Disarmingly familiar, like a memory only half-recalled. You will love this book' HOLLY BLACK