Mother Moth
by Adrian Bell
266 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780646551050
About
A classic tale of witchcraft. Elspeth Willows converses with all the creatures at Milkcow Farm, where she and her father live happily. But Elspeth's powers reveal a dark side, relentlessly corroding the surface of her safe, sunlit world. The mysterious, gruesome Mother Moth, a witch who regenerates by the sacrifice of children, has adopted Elspeth as her next victim. Tangled thickets of dread, danger and dream trap Elspeth as she struggles to outwit her enemy, protect her father, and summon the courage to accept her own nature.
Mother Moth is an extended fable for all ages, a worthy successor to the classic illustrated fairy tales, by turns funny, rollicking, thrilling, touching, always unflinching in its encounter with the archetypal fairy tale themes: love, death, and the nature of evil.
Mother Moth is an extended fable for all ages, a worthy successor to the classic illustrated fairy tales, by turns funny, rollicking, thrilling, touching, always unflinching in its encounter with the archetypal fairy tale themes: love, death, and the nature of evil.
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