![]() ![]() ![]() Her eldest sister – Damia, beautiful, beloved – is married off to the prince of a neighbouring, much more powerful kingdom. Marra is the third daughter of the ruling family of a very small and not very powerful kingdom. This has a dog made of bones, a dust-wife, a demon chicken, a man rescued from a goblin market, a magical godmother better at curses than blessings but determined not to do harm – and Marra, so determined that even impossible tasks won’t put her off. Like many of Kingfisher’s novels, it draws on fairytale elements in its worldbuilding like most of them, it’s strongly concerned, in its own way, with ethics, with power, and with what you do in response to cruelty. Nettle & Bone shares this combination of the peculiar and the pragmatic. ![]() I imagine they share many of the same characteristics.) Vernon is an award-winning author under both names, and her novels and stories as Kingfisher are united by their combination of pragmatism among characters and peculiarity in worldbuilding, with a strong sense of humour and a definite impression that, given a choice between several options, Kingfisher will choose the one most likely to turn out weird. Kingfisher, as many of us know, is the open pen name of Ursula Vernon. ![]()
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