Re: McKinley: wild swans

That's interesting--I thought it was supposed to be a trilogy.... Juliet
Marillier has an official web site (just do a search for her name), which
talks a little about the second book, Son of Shadows. (It's already out in
Britain and Australia, by the way.) That book apparently is the story
about Sorcha's daughter, Liadan.

Tawen

At 02:18 PM 2/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I read "Daughter of the Forest" last summer, and,
>although set in Ireland, is the story of the girl
>whose 7 brothers are turned into swans by the
>stepmother, and she must weave shirts of nettles for
>them without being able to speak. It follows the
>original story pretty closely. I thought it was a
>wonderful retelling of the story-I highly recommend
>it. As a side-note, it's supposed to be the first in a
>series of 7-I'm curious what the other 6 will be
>about-maybe about the brothers? Does anyone know?
>
>Allison
>
>--- Amessygurl@aol.com wrote:
>> hello! i'm also interested in finding more
>> retellings of the "wild swans" fairytale. amazon
>> yields different results depending on whether you
>> type in wild/6/six/7/ or "seven" swans, so it can be
>> confusing! i think _daughter of the forest_ may be a
>> retelling of an irish swan-transformation story, not
>> the hans christian andersen story where the sister
>> cannot speak, must weave shirts of nettles, etc, but
>> i'm not positive about that... anyway, i haven't
>> actually read most of these yet, but here are some
>> options amazon has turned up:
>>
>> 1. _swan's wing_(actually i think someone on this
>> list recommended this one, which picks up where the
>> fairytale leaves off)
>>
>> 2. susan jeffer's illustrated _the wild
>> swans_(amazing, no matter how many versions of the
>> fairytale you've read)
>>
>> 3. _twelve wild swans_, by starhawk - supposedly
>> contains some feminist pagan stuff, too,
>> interspersed with the fairytale retelling, so i
>> guess you could skip the parts you weren't
>> interested in...
>>
>> 4. _the seventh swan_, by nicholas stuart gray; also
>> recommended on this list in the past; also,
>> apparently, picks up where the original fairytale
>> left off, with the one winged brother
>>
>> 5. _the wild swans_, by peg kerr; apparently a blend
>> of "real life" and fantasy?
>>
>> 6. on a past search, i thought i saw a book that was
>> a humorous retelling of the wild swans(maybe along
>> the lines of _ella enchanted_), but now i can't find
>> it - anyone else have any info on this book? thanks!
>>
>> take care,
>> cameron
>>
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