Max Porter Unisex Grief Is The Thing With Feathers And Lanny By 2 Books Collection Set

Name: Max Porter Unisex Grief Is The Thing With Feathers And Lanny By 2 Books Collection Set
Brand: Max Porter

Max Porter

Titles in this set: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers Lanny Description:Grief Is the Thing with FeathersIn a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him.LannyNot far from London, there is a village.This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present.It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad.But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.