{"product_id":"diving-belles-and-other-stories","title":"Diving Belles: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStraying  husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee.  Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep a fretful watch  on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains and worrying about  frayed carpets. A mother, who seems alone and lonely, may be rubbing  sore muscles or holding the hands of her invisible lover as he touches  her neck. Phantom hounds roam the moors and, on a windy beach, a boy and  his grandmother beat back despair with an old white door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  these stories, the line between the real and the imagined is blurred as  Lucy Wood takes us to Cornwall’s ancient coast, building on its rich  storytelling history and recasting its myths in thoroughly contemporary  ways. Calling forth the fantastic and fantastical, she mines these  legends for that bit of magic remaining in all our lives—if only we can  let ourselves see it.","brand":"Lucy Wood","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53166288404771,"sku":"9780547595535","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780547595535.jpg?v=1741199398","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/diving-belles-and-other-stories","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}