SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2009

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2009

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'Only a heart of glass would be unmoved.'
- The New York Times

'Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story... a magical fable of fate and resignation.'
- Guardian

'It’s the look, the sound, and the scent of St. Hauda’s Land that stay with you after turning the last page of this beautiful novel.'
- The Boston Globe

 'Shaw writes finely honed prose and knows how to wring maximum suspense out of a tightly woven plot. His is an accomplished first novel—a hypnotic book with an atmosphere all its own.'
- BookPage

 'Engrossing and moving debut novel.'
- The Wichita Eagle

'Shaw’s novel flows gracefully and is wonderfully dreamlike, with the danger of the islands matched by the characters’ dark pasts.'
- Publishers Weekly

'Ali Shaw has written a rare orchid of a book, beautiful and eccentric and exquisitely sad.'
- Patrick Ness, author of The Ask and the Answer

'Crafted with elegance and swept by passionate magic and the yearning for connection.  
A rare pleasure.'
- Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

'Combining magic realism, the conventions of a romance novel, and a British sense of practicality, this charming first novel creates a new fable.'
- Booklist

'The Girl with Glass Feet is not just special - it’s remarkable. . . . [This] debut novel conjures up the extraordinary and fantastic, yet places it firmly in our digital world'
- The Oxford Times

'A haunting and magical tale.'
- Aberdeen Press and Journal