![]() ![]() ![]() The book will hit stores in July 2018, and we have an excerpt and the cover for you to look at. READ REVIEW 9 SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik RELEASE DATE: JFrom the author of Uprooted (2015), the splendid Temeraire Napoleonic Warsand-dragons series, etc., this reworked fairy tale’s opening sentence might well have read Once upon a time in Old Lithuania. ![]() ![]() How Miryem's faith plays a big role in who she is as a person and how she's treated, how she uses that to her advantage to become the reputable, though cold, businesswoman she needs to be to save her family. Her next novel, Spinning Silver, takes her back to those fairy tale roots. How Irina, a thorn in her duke fathers side due to her plainness and thus inability to marry off to someone rich and powerful, becomes all the more so in her own right, how she's linked to the other two girls when Miryem’s desperate attempt to fulfill impossible tasks set by the Staryk leads to ingenuity. I can go on about how Wanda is drawn into Miryem’s life as a way to pay off the debt her father has drunk and gambled away. I think you can (kind of) guess what happens. Miryem has become so good, there are boasts she can spin silver into gold. Miryam finds clever ways to get back what her father had loaned, through coin or food or medicine or wool, or, in Wanda’s family’s case, labour in return for unpaid debts.Īs her reputation grows, it reaches the ears of the Satryk, a race of humanoid creatures that live in a parallel land of snow and ice, only emerging in winter to seek out gold, which they covet above all else, wherever they can find it (usually leaving death and destruction in their wake) and bring it back to their kingdom. ![]()
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