'Fantastically imagined... Only a heart of glass would be unmoved.'

                                                                - New York Times Book Review

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around icy bogland; albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods; jellyfish glow in the ocean's depths… and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass.

A mysterious and frightening metamorphosis has befallen Ida  – she is slowly turning into glass, from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda's Land, where she believes the glass first took hold, in the vain hope of finding the one man who might just be able to cure her...

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