Lud-In-The-Mist
Hope Mirrlees
A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil Gaiman
Lud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie and is a great trial to Lud which rejects anything 'other' preferring to believe only in what is known what is solid.
Nathaniel Chanticleer a dreamy melancholy man is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his daughter and a long-overdue desire to protect his son he realises Lud is changing - and something must be done.
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