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'The first of a suite of novels inspired by the ancient myths of Northern Europe. Berlin in autumn: Christine Starlight is living in an artist's colony in the crumbling urban shadows of the old east. Her lover Jude is a painter whose patience and beauty have eased her long battle with chronic pain, but Christine begins to be haunted by recollections of her childhood, of a little girl's disappearance and the flapping of a blackbird's wings. Then her life is rocked by the return of her childhood friend - a crimson-haired beauty who presides over a land where a witch lives in a well, a wolf is the queen's counsellor, and fate turns on the fall of an autumn leaf. As Christine grows addicted to Mayfridh's faery world, where mortals feel no pain, so Mayfridh grows addicted to Christine's, and falls deeply and dangerously in love with Jude. But while jealousies, betrayals and secrets begin to unpick the threads of their lives, they are unaware of the ghastly threat which stalks them: the cruel and brilliant billionaire Immanuel Z, who is hunting faery bones for a grand sculpture.'
Source: Publisher's website www.voyageronline.com.au (Sighted 21/4/10)
Australian Popular Medievalism
Notes
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Dedication: Mirko Alles liebe, So Weit der Himmel Himmel Ist.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Chronic pain. Type of character Primary. Point of view Third person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Autumn Castle
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , December/January no. 10 2003-2004; (p. 113)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
[Review] The Autumn Castle
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 32 2003; (p. 109)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
Grimm Tale Shape-Shifts Between Two Worlds
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 April 2003; (p. 8)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
Fantasy
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
Gothic Naturally
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 April 2003; (p. 7)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel
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Gothic Naturally
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 April 2003; (p. 7)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
Fantasy
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 12 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
Grimm Tale Shape-Shifts Between Two Worlds
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 April 2003; (p. 8)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
[Review] The Autumn Castle
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 32 2003; (p. 109)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel -
[Review] The Autumn Castle
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , December/January no. 10 2003-2004; (p. 113)
— Review of The Autumn Castle 2003 single work novel
Awards
- 2003 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Horror Division — Novel
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Berlin,
cGermany,cWestern Europe, Europe,