'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell An astonishing mind-bending novel about a woman
discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. *SHORTLISTED FOR
THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE* In the not-too-distant future a young spy named
Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life. Elísabet likes to take
long solitary walks near the lake. One day she sees two creatures emerging from the water
half-human half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality.
Pulled into the monomaniacal and often violent quest of the swanfolk Elísabet finds her own
mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her
involvement with these unusual beings and a past life she has been trying to evade.
'Ómarsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi New York Review of
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