Awards
Costa First Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
Publisher: Atlantic Books
A mysterious and frightening metamorphosis has befallen Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass, from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda's Land where she believes the glass first took hold, in the vain hope of finding the one man who might just be able to cure her... Midas Crook is a young loner, who has lived on islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defences. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart, and they begin to fall in love... What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass?
Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.
Judges: "This beautiful book captured our imagination, exquisitely blending reality and fantasy."
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