Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women

Auteur

Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, a psychologist who has specialised both in neuroscience and narrative, and a mythologist with a specialisation in Celtic Studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us into authentic and meaningful ways of being which are founded on a deep sense of belonging to place, a rootedness in the land we inhabit. See http://sharonblackie.net for more information.

Texte du rabat

The author of *If Women Rose Rooted *and *The Enchanted Life *returns to her first love, fiction, in this literary collection of fairy-tale retellings of transforming women.

Résumé
Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore.