Castles Made Of Sand, Gwyneth Jones
Castles Made Of Sand, Gwyneth Jones
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Castles Made Of Sand

Author: Gwyneth Jones

Narrator: Mel Hudson

Unabridged: 15 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 01/21/2021

Synopsis

The BOLD AS LOVE series is a world of daring, dread and enchantment, a world that could almost be ours: a brilliant combination of myth, magic and pop culture.

Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom. Now they have to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps falling apart. There are fearsome things going on in England's rural hinterland, and in Continental Europe the green nazis are planning a final solution to desperate environmental damage. But there's nothing the Triumvirate can't handle - until Fiorinda's father, a monster of the kind the world has never before known, reaches out to reclaim his magical child, the flower-bride.

And that's when darkness falls over Ax's England . . .

Harrowing . . . enchanting - a dark fairy tale with an epic sweep, set in a world very like our own.

About Gwyneth Jones

Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.She has also won the Pilgrim Award, for lifetime achievement in SF scholarship; the BSFA Short Fiction Award, for 'La Cenerentola'; and, as Ann Halam, the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society, for The Fear Man.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol

As good as I remember it from the first time round, Gwyn Jones' writing is as strong as always, and I still cried in the same places as last time, I'd forgotten enough of the story for some things to come as a surprise again. A brilliant follow on from Bold as Love. Reread - Feb 2011......more

Goodreads review by Philip

Reading out of sequence but this proved more satisfying than the finale, even though I knew the end of the story. A case of spoilers that didn't spoil. Yet, a series based on the counter-culture of the folk revival extended through the 80s and 90s, now defunct. As such, this becomes an exploration o......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra

Jones begins this story just minutes after the conclusion to Bold as Love, such that I had to go back and read the last chapter of that book to make sense of this one. Which, to my mind, doesn't happen very often; it made it feel like this was less a sequel, as such, and more a continuation of the s......more

Goodreads review by Lemongrass

How can an idea as lame, strange and dated as that underlying this book and its precursor, Bold as Love, be so moving and endearing?......more

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