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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Fantasy Award for Best Novel | 2012 | Winner | “Graham Joyce's liminal novel won the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel for its literary delicacy, its refusal to resolve the central mystery, and the psychological richness of its fairyland hypothesis.” |
About This Book
A young woman who disappeared twenty years ago returns to her family, apparently not having aged—and her story of where she's been defies rational explanation, forcing her family to question what is real.
About the Author
Graham Joyce was a British author of literary dark fantasy, winner of multiple British Fantasy Awards and the O. Henry Prize. He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2013). Read more →
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