Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, Byatt's mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok -is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.

Byatt's retelling of Ragnarok is permeated with the loving familiarity of long acquaintance

Auteur
A.S. Byatt was renowned internationally for her novels and short stories, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Children's Book. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, she was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

Résumé
An odyssey of childhood, mythology and the imagination from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book