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Title	:	The Girl With Glass Feet
Author	:	Ali Shaw
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2009 by Atlantic Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magical Realism. Romance. Young Adult

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Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.

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Original Title:	The Girl with Glass Feet
ISBN:	1843549182 (ISBN13: 9781843549185)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ida Maclaird, Midas Crook, Henry Fuwa
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2009), Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009), Desmond Elliott Prize (2010), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2012)

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Ratings: 3.41 From 6943 Users | 1019 Reviews

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Robin RommThe hybrid form of the bookfairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasyimpresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical realThe end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved.The New York Timesyou rang, NY times?

How someone can be verbose without saying anything takes talent.

4 Stars.*I should take a photo.No. Just remember it, and us in it.He swallowed.She smiled. Here was rightness of place and time.There isnt much I can say about this book that other people havent said in the other comments here.This book is absolutely breath taking: its perfectly executed, immaculately paced and I fell in love with every single character**- flaws and all. The world that Shaw creates is so lush and full of vivid colour and texture that if someone had run into my room proclaiming

Occasionally I find that a particular book, for no obvious reason, keeps popping up everywhere - in my Amazon recommendations, in mentions on friends' blogs, in magazines' books-of-the-year lists - until I end up feeling like I almost HAVE to read it. The Girl with Glass Feet is one such book. Based on the premise (a love story, set on a somewhat fantastical fictional archipelago, about the relationship between Midas, a shy photographer, and Ida, a girl who is slowly turning into glass) I wasn't

A beautiful fairy-tale idea gets lost in a snowstorm of long scenery descriptions and underdeveloped characters. Oh boy, this sucks. I had really hoped that this book would make its interesting synopsis come true, especially since Ive read Shaws latest book The Trees last year and I loved it, but The Girl With the Glass Feet was simply not a good read.Lets start with the positive things: the intriguing story idea. The book resolves around Ida, a young women who is slowly turning into glass

I want to like it. Fault - too often the characters are unrealistic. There are several moments where I didn't believe in the characters. Falling in love is a facing life action - not a facing death action. It felt like the main plot worked against itself without any of the characters acknowledging this. Also - at times I was confused by the characters. The absolute magic of the book is interesting - but there is a forced sense of poetry that conflicts with just telling me a story. The glass feet

In Mr B's bookshop in Bath I asked for something beautiful to read. "Beautiful to look at or beautiful to read?" I was asked."Both," I replied, being greedy.This is what I was handed.