Description
A feminist retelling of favourite Irish fairytale The Children of Lir.
Aífe marries Lir, a chieftain with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of his affection for his children, the witch Aífe turns them into swans for 900 years. Retold through the voice of Aífe, Savage Her Reply is unsettling and dark, yet nuanced in its exploration of the guilt of a complex character.
Author: Deirdre Sullivan
Publisher: Little Island Books
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781912417674
ISBN10: 1912417677
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
- Young Adult Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Country & Ethnic
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women
About the Author
Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway in the West of Ireland. Savage Her Reply is her tenth book. Her collection of dark and witchy fairytale retellings, Tangleweed and Brine (Little Island Books), won Book of the Year at the 2018 Children's Books Ireland awards and Young Adult Book of the Year at the 2017 Irish Book Awards.
Deirdre also writes short fiction and poetry, which has been published in places like Banshee, The Penny Dreadful, Mslexia and the Dublin Review. Her play Wake was performed by No Ropes theatre company in February 2019.