SPINNING SILVER meets HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE in this beautiful debut Slavic folklore fantasy.
Marisha's life is not going as she expected. With the sleeping plague only a few months away
she's as desperate for money as she is to escape her aunt's torturous marriage prospects.
Leaving all that she's known behind Marisha accepts a job working with the notorious koldunya
Baba Zima in her house that glides on chicken feet through the snow. But Baba Zima is
renowned for being both clever and cruel. And most difficult of all is her current apprentice
Olena who wants nothing to do with Marisha. Despite her fears and Olena's cold demeanour
Marisha finds herself drawn into the magical world of koldunry and delves further into Olena's
research - a cure for the sleeping plague. Accompanying Olena on an increasingly dangerous
seemingly impossible search for a cure she finds hidden connections between the sleeping
plague her own family's history and her bizarre recurring dreams: dreams of a masked ball
where the deep sleepers are trapped endlessly dancing - and a monstrous beaked man haunts her
every step . . .
