A Pocketful of Crows, Joanne Harris
A Pocketful of Crows, Joanne Harris
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A Pocketful of Crows
A modern fairytale novella from the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author

Author: Joanne Harris

Narrator: Joanne M Harris

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 10/19/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.
(The Child Ballads, 295)

So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl.

Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems only revenge will be powerful enough to let her escape.

This is a stunning and original modern fairytale.

Written and Read by Joanne M Harris
(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

About Joanne Harris

JOANNE HARRIS is an Anglo-French author, whose books include twenty novels, three cookbooks, and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology, and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.

About Joanne M Harris

Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted CHOCOLAT (made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and many other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born.Find out more at www.joanne-harris.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @Joannechocolat

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘

Generally, I prefer my books to be less whimsical and involve at least some brain action so I believed this would not merit an outstanding grade. The poetic treatment of this stupid, stupid love story wrapped with myth and fairy tale won me over: 5 entangling shining stars. Let us all be true to our......more

Goodreads review by astarion's bhaal babe (wingspan matters)

I have no name. The travelling folk have neither name nor master. When I die, no stone will be laid. Mo flowers will be scattered. When I die, I will become a thousand creatures: beetles, worms. And so I shall travel on, for ever, till the End of the Worlds. This is the fate of the travelling fol......more

Goodreads review by Kirsty ❤️

What a lovely little book. I actually read it in a couple of hours one lazy Sunday morning. The synopsis says it all really. Based on the poem 'The Child Ballads' this is a lovely poetic piece of writing weaving folklore and nature into one beautiful piece of prose. The young girl (not named as nami......more

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I loved this story . . . It offers a reminder that however much man tries to insulate himself with his beliefs and inventions, he remains reliant on and at the mercy of the forces of nature NeverImitate

A cozy flight of fancy to curl up with on a chilly night Publishers Weekly

The perfect novel to curl up with on a cold autumn night . . . It is a fierce, intelligent interpretation of a folk ballad Book Murmuration

An utter delight The Book Bag

I absolutely loved it . . . This lyrical read is a fairytale about life, love and ultimately revenge Where There's Ink There's Paper

It was magical and utterly captured me Aurora Sights

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