The Girl with Glass Feet A Novel [Paperback]

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.

The Girl with Glass Feetis a love story to treasure, crafted with elegance and swept by passionate magic and the yearning for connection. A rare pleasure (Katherine Dunn, author ofGeek Love).

Ali Shawgraduated from Lancaster University with a degree in English literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library.The Girl with Glass Feetis his first novel.

The following author biography and list of questions aboutThe Girl with Glass Feetare intended as resources to aid individual readers and book groups who would like to learn more about the author and this book. We hope that this guide will provide you a starting place for discussion, and suggest a variety of perspectives from which you might approachThe Girl with Glass Feet.

1. Light is a motif that permeates the novel. What is the significance of light in the story? What does light mean to Midas? Why is it meaningful that the jellyfish of St. Hauda's Land emit light when they die?

2. Why is Midas drawn to photography? How does his obsession color the way he looks at the world and affect his decisions? Why does Midas think that negatives are the real photographs ?

3. Why does Ida choose men with whom she must be endlessly patient and cannot have satisfying relationships? Why does she give Midas so many chances?

4. What role does coloror lack thereofplay in the novel?

5. Why does Ida make Midas promise not to telll3¿