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Fountainville

Tishani Doshi

Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion

Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Number of pages: 198

ISBN: 9781781721087

Publication date: October 15, 2013

Price: £8.99

Series: New Stories from the Mabinogion

Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Number of pages: 198

ISBN: 9781781721100

Publication date: October 15, 2013

Price: £7.19

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Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, assistant to Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, in this retelling of celtic Mabinogion myth by poet and novelist Tishani Doshi. Under their care the town flourishes, but when the mysterious Mr Knight arrives at their house of 24 women everything begins to change. Aided by Rafi, the giant of the woods and the all-action Leo, events begin to unravel fast for Luna and Begum.

Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi was born in Madras in 1975 to Welsh-Gujarati parents. A poet, dancer and writer, her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury) was shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award, and longlisted for the Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Countries of the Body won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006. Her second poetry book Everything Begins Elsewhere is published by HarperCollins (India), Bloodaxe (UK) and Copper Canyon (USA).

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Listen to Tishani Doshi read an extract from her novel, Fountainville: