The Firekeeper's Daughter

Auteur

Karola Renard is a writer, editor and translator. Born in Germany, she is engaged in exploring the mythic story-lines running through her country of origin, the numerous places she has travelled and the British Isles, which she has adopted as her home. She lives in Devon with her husband and young daughter.

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From the vastness of Stone Age Siberia to a minefield in today's Angola, from the black beaches of Iceland to the African savannah and a Jewish-German cemetery, Karola Renard tells thirteen mythic stories of initiation featuring twenty-first-century kelpies, sirens, and holy fools, a river of tears and a girl who dances on fire, a maiden shaman of ice, a witch in a secret garden, Queen Guinevere's magic mirror, and a woman who swallows the moon. The red thread running through them all is a deep faith in life and the need to find truth and meaning even in the greatest of ordeals.