Enter a world of riddles and enchantments, cunning tricksters and dangerous bargains, shapeshifters, witches, trolls and things that wait in the dark.
In Lost & Found, novelist Elizabeth Garner brings the strange and seductive world of traditional folklore vividly to life across fifteen stories. From 'The Black Bull's Bride' and 'Stealing the Moon' to 'The Riddles of the Crossroads', these are tales of love and betrayal, courage and trickery, luck, loss and transformation.
Ancient in origin yet alive to the present, these stories remind us why folk tales have survived for generations, changing with every teller while speaking to something enduringly human.
Illustrated throughout with Phoebe Connolly's exquisite wood engravings, Lost & Found is a beautifully crafted collection for readers of Angela Carter, and anyone who has ever been enchanted, unsettled or transported by an old story told anew.
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Elizabeth Garner is the author of the novels Nightdancing and The Ingenious Edgar Jones, both influenced by traditional folk tale narratives and motifs. Raised in a home and landscape rich in folklore and imaginative play, she encountered the oral storytelling tradition from an early age. She studied English Literature at Oxford University and trained as a film script editor before becoming a freelance fiction editor and creative writing teacher. Lost & Found is her first collection of retold folk tales.