5/12/2023 0 Comments Sistersong lucy hollandHolland beautifully captures the dark, sinister feel of the original ballad, whilst crafting a powerful story full of compelling characters. I am delighted to say that Holland’s novel more than lived up to my expectations. As such my expectations for Sistersong going in were particularly high. The Child Ballads represent a strain of ancient British folklore rife with fairies, magic and blood that has served as an inspiration for some of Fantasy’s finest novels, from Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire & Hemlock (1984) to Ellen Kushner’s Thomas The Rhymer (1990). Lucy Holland’s Sistersong (2021) is a fantasy novel based on the Child Ballad ‘The Twa Sisters’. I’ve left our world for theirs – the nameless land where goddesses sing to the stars, where lost spirits linger in the twilight.” “I wander so long, it feels as though I’ve crossed some hidden boundary.
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