![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Lady Alicia’s son, Finian, Corrina learns from and loves the sea, which speaks to her in new ways, but mysteries of a former Lady, a buried child, and the sinister Sir Edward cloud her understanding. Still in her boy’s disguise, she becomes Folk Keeper at Lady Alicia’s Cliffsend by the sea. She has no training but she listens and learns, and when she is summoned to a great estate, she seizes the opportunity. She has made herself into a Folk Keeper by cutting off her silver hair, which grows wondrously, and passing herself off as a boy, for only boys perform this task. Corinna is crafty and sullen: she lives in the cellar of a foundling home whose dark and damp she loves, and keeps the Folk quiescent by offerings of food, and circles of iron and salt. From Billingsley (Well-Wished, 1997), an inventive and romantic fusion of the selkie tale with that of a nameless, hungry Folk who must be kept at bay. ![]()
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