Author(s): MALONE ANGELA

Fiction

A mesmerising new talent. A glorious tale in the tradition of Angela Carter Do you believe in giants? Do you believe that a cloud of brilliant blue butterflies could descend on a town and change a man's life forever? That secrets traded on the moonlit plain of Petticoat Flat could alter the course of nature? Something eerie is happening in the little goldmining town of Reedy Creek. When George Clancy Tynan's wife married him he was four feet ten inches tall. Then he became a nine-feet-tall giant. A giant obsessed with a woman called Lucia Peddler. Now George Clancy's granddaughter, Kitty Charlotte O'Reilly, seeks the truth about her grandfather. And as she does, she gives us a town, a love story, and an enduring mystery - as her own height increases, inch by inch. Angela Malone captures the life of Reedy Creek and its Irish immigrants with exquisite language, deep affection and a soaring imagination.