2022/24: The Wren Hunt -- Mary Watson

2022/24: The Wren Hunt -- Mary Watson

I knew magic, and it wasn’t ghost stories about a tree girl in a ruined cottage. [p. 14]

From the sample chapters -- including an unsettling scene in which Wren Silke is pursued through the woods, just after Christmas, by a band of teenage boys -- I'd expected a story rooted in traditional British folklore, the hunting of the wren and the pagan rituals of the year's end. That expectation wasn't wholly fulfilled,( Read more... )