Synopsis
Stories in the Dark
$23.99 Published by Currency Press
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city
He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears
Into his life steps Anna - older, street smart and scornful of his crying
As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood
And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers
Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive