Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, ...
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Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son, he realises that something is changing in Lud - and something must be done. Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic, an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with 'the shadows' - those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress. Featuring a foreword read by Neil Gaiman' (p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
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I love Mirrlees's radiant, shameless prose style. She's never afraid of too much lushness, too much anything--she just tells this story as it needs to be told.
I tracked this book down after I heard Jo Walton (whose books are also glorious) describe Susanna Clarke's _Jonathan_Strange_and_Mr._Norrell_ as the fantasy genre as it might have been had it descended mainly from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels and Hope Mirrlees's _Lud-in-the-Mist_. I loved Clarke's book, and so rushed out to get Mirrlees. The edition I found has a foreword by Neil Gaiman, in which he says (quite rightly) that _Lud_ is a classic.
I was so delighted with this book that I assigned it to my students at the earliest opportunity. It's a real vocabulary workout for American junior high students, and it's a challenging enough book to elicit good, thoughtful student papers, while being so inviting in tone and intriguing in its imagery as to keep kids hooked.
