The Blue Salt Road, Joanne Harris
The Blue Salt Road, Joanne Harris
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The Blue Salt Road
A modern fairytale novella from the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author

Author: Joanne Harris

Narrator: David Rintoul

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 11/15/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean,
Little ken I my bairn's father,
Far less the land that he staps in.
(Child Ballad, no. 113)

So begins a stunning tale of love, loss and revenge, against a powerful backdrop of adventure on the high seas, and drama on the land. The Blue Salt Road balances passion and loss, love and violence and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless, wild young man.

Passion drew him to a new world, and trickery has kept him there - without his memories, separated from his own people. But as he finds his way in this dangerous new way of life, so he learns that his notions of home, and your people, might not be as fixed as he believed.

Beautifully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, this is a stunning and original modern fairytale.

Read by David Rintoul
(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

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 David Rintoul

David Rintoul has played leading parts with most of the major British theatre companies. Many television appearances include Darcy in the first BBC Pride and Prejudice. He frequently appears on radio and has recorded over a hundred audio books. At the time of recording he was playing Dr Jake Houseman in the original London cast of the smash-hit musical Dirty Dancing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

The Child Ballads have been a source of inspiration in several of Joanne Harris’s books and Blue Salt Road is one of them. It’s a magical, fantasy fairytale of a Selkie (the seal folk) and the land folk which is woven into a stunning tale of love, treachery and the lure of the ocean. A young man of......more

Goodreads review by Chris

The line between song and myth is porous, and the Child Ballads have been fertile ground for Joanna M. Harris lately. “The Brown Girl” inspired A Pocketful of Crows, and now “The Great Silkie Of Sule Skerry” offers the starting point for The Blue Salt Road. Harris understand storytelling and the pow......more

Goodreads review by Suanne

Welp, I ate that up. And you say Joanne Harris has written other fantasy/folk books? Lovely. I'll read all of them.......more

Goodreads review by Kirsty

You'd think I'd be sick of selkie stories and retold fairytales by now – but just when I think no retelling could surprise me, along comes Joanne Harris. I loved this.......more


Quotes

This is a tale to read on a cold night, wrapped in a blanket Fantasy Book Review

Thought provoking and evocative Tor.com

A mythical masterpiece Bookmarks and Stages

Joanne M. Harris is one of the modern masters of fantasy writing . . . The Blue Salt Road is a journey you should take Starburst

A perfect read for a waterside afternoon . . . with her graceful language and magical phrasing, Harris conveys the enchantment of an old tale while imparting new lessons about change, betrayal, and forgiveness in this refreshing take on the age-old powers of attraction between the supernatural and the merely human The Star

The Blue Salt Road is an old-school folktale of magic, love and betrayal . . . [it] will stay with you after you have finished reading it SFF World

Joanne Harris really is the queen of beautiful, lyrical writing . . . With gorgeous artwork both inside and out, this really is a stunning book. The story is a beautifully woven tale of magic, adventure and love The Bibliophile Chronicles