Fire and Hemlock

Name: Fire and Hemlock
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN: 9781705265949

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrator: Gemma Dawson

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/01/2021

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Synopsis

Polly has two sets of memories . . .

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed.

But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love—and perhaps Polly herself—will be lost.

About Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on May 23, 2019

Polly is a capable young woman who has lived a completely ordinary life. Or so she thinks, until one day she's cleaning out her old bedroom and starts to remember - in great detail; it takes up most of the book - a different life, a second set of memories revolving around a somewhat older man, Thoma......more

Goodreads review by mark on September 18, 2021

synopsis: a young girl becomes a brave hero who rescues a forlorn gentleman in distress. judging from reviews, this is apparently DWJ's most challenging novel. whether it is the layers of references to myths and folk songs, the hallucinogenic final battle, a potentially uncomfortable scenario in whic......more

Goodreads review by Kat Kennedy on October 02, 2011

When I tried to think of a way to describe this book I kept having a GIF go through my head. One that I'd seen recently and felt summed up this novel perfectly: This novel is just so... damn uncomfortable. It's hard to pinpoint why it reminds me of two androgenous ballet dancers having a suspended re......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 04, 2018

Fire and Hemlock is one of Diana Wynne Jones’ more haunting books, with characters, situations and references that linger long after a first reading. It’s well known that the plot outline is taken from Northern ballads recounting the stories of Young Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer, especially as she......more