Feathertide
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4.3 • 13 Ratings
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- £0.99
Publisher Description
'If you enjoy magical realism and moving tales of self-discovery, you won't be able to put this down.' CULTUREFLY
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A girl...
A secret...
A life-changing journey.
'A beautiful fairytale of a book with the most delicious prose. I devoured every page' Alex Bell, Bestselling author of The Polar Bear Explorers' Club
Born covered in the feathers of a bird, and kept hidden in a crumbling house full of secrets, Marea has always known she was different, but never known why. And so to find answers, she goes in search of the father she has never met.
The hunt leads her to the City of Murmurs, a place of mermaids and mystery, where jars of swirling mist are carried through the streets by the broken-hearted.
And Mara will never forget what she learns there
Feathertide is an enchanting, magical novel perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale.
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Readers are loving Feathertide!
'Magical, inventive and unique. A truly beautiful story.'
'Rarely there comes a book that makes you go wow. When it does you want to treasure every word, savour the book, never let it end. This is that book.'
'Beautifully written, reminiscent of old fairy tales, yet very modern in its concepts.'
'Quite literally the most beautiful book I've ever read.'
'Beth Cartwright's stunning prose left me enchanted and enthralled and I love this style of writing.'
Customer Reviews
Whimsical in every sense
Ever since reading The Starless Sea I’ve been looking for a book that makes me feel as if fairy tales are real, and this book was utterly beautiful. It has lyrical, enchanting writing, dynamic characters that you love and care about, and a journey that broke my heart then fixed it over and over again. Read this book if you have wanderlust or just wished mermaids were real. I would do anything for another book with these characters in this world. Perfection.
Feathertide - needed more development
Liked: imaginative premise; sense of adventure; initially interesting characters.
Disliked: use of first person was off-putting; overdescriptive text which disrupted pace (including frequent clunky similes); felt like it had potential to be more dramatic than it was but steered towards safer options that didn’t deliver so well. Characters created interest initially but then felt underdeveloped.