Ali Shaw Knihy

From the Costa Prize shortlisted author of The Girl with Glass Feet comes a magical novel exploring themes of love, discovery, and nature.

In a sudden transformation, a suburb becomes a shadowy forest after a night of destruction, leaving Adrien Thomas to navigate this unrecognizable world alone, separated from his wife Michelle. Teaming up with Hannah and her son Seb, they embark on a quest to find her brother and uncover the depths of both nature and their own darkness.

A young couple risks everything in their quest to find a cure for a magical ailment in this luminous, richly visual debut novel. 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, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and magical first novel, a love story to treasure.

Set against the backdrop of a remote, snowbound archipelago, the story unfolds with mysterious occurrences that unsettle the inhabitants of St. Hauda's Land. As the chilling atmosphere deepens, the narrative explores themes of isolation and the unknown, drawing readers into a world where the eerie landscape mirrors the characters' internal struggles. The blend of suspense and psychological intrigue promises to keep readers captivated as they uncover the secrets lurking in this enigmatic setting.

It could only be Jesus! What does this mean? We'll look at this more in depth during the study, but simply stated it means that our loving, holy God sent His very own Son to meet His demands for covering sin and reconciling mankind to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:18). Gentile Christians often miss the complex richness and incredibility of God's intricate work in giving us Jesus. Christ was sent to fulfill all five of the main Levitical offerings that were given by God to help a sinful mankind live in close proximity to a holy God without being punished for their sins. This gift is so intricate that we are sure of this: not just anyone could come and claim to be the savior of the world, and not just anything could ever take this savior's place. It could only be Jesus!