The Crow Maiden

"A brilliant novel, powerful, sensuous, earthy, and often quite luminously magical. The story makes sense, the characters are well drawn and sympathetic (including their faults) and the pacing is about right because readers will wish to revel – descriptions have a wonderful richness and precision of language and there are many brilliant scenes." – Ian Watson

A young mother abandons her family to walk for a night with the faeries, and while she is gone, her environmentalist husband is seduced by a sinister creature from the Otherworld. In the heart of the city, goth boy Jo meets an eldritch elderly lady who tells his fortune and sends him out on a quest. And in the heart of the English countryside, a motley tribe of protesters tries to protect a beautiful piece of land from destructive road builders. As the two sides clash, ancient spirits stir...