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Lud-In-The-Mist

  • Author
    • Hope Mirrlees
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  • Published: Jul 05 2018
  • Pages: 288
  • 200 x 136mm
  • ISBN: 9781473225565
A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil Gaiman

Lud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie, and is a great trial to Lud, which rejects anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid.

Nathaniel Chanticleer, a dreamy, melancholy man, is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his son, he realises Lud is changing - and something must be done.
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Press Reviews

  • Neil Gaiman

    The single most beautiful and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century
  • Mary Gentle

    A Shakespearian tragi-comedy, a murder mystery and a multi-faceted allegory all in one; and a damn good story, too
  • Michael Swanwick

    What we have here is that rarest of creatures, the fantasy novel of ideas
  • Mary Beard

    TLS
    [involves] fundamental questions of how a society and its members understand their own history, and how they make sense of the conflicts embedded in social class and political power