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title: "Folk"
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# Folk

**Brand:** zoe gilbert
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- **What is this?** Folk by zoe gilbert
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## Description

Folk

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## Customer Reviews

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    Otherwordly and Haunting, yet Visceral and Grounded - my Book of the Year
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018*

And so, us readers are taken to the island village of Neverness, which is somewhat like rural medieval Northern Europe; horses and sheep, fishing, the baking of bread and the eating of eggs.  Zoe Gilbert opens with a thundering scene.  A young lad is running, thudding, through a hillside of gorse with other lads.  She tells us that there is sweat.  That there is stink of leather.  For the young lad it is his first time at the gorse game.  He fights the thorns of the gorse.  He runs headlong deeper into the gorse, seeking the Gorse Mother.  What is this annual event of the folk of Neverness?Folk is a story of the folk of Neverness.  It is not in any way a 'traditional' novel of a 'story' with core characters.  The whole cast of the folk of Neverness are the characters.  Characters have a story to tell, and then other characters are told.  Werrity Prowd, in her bloom.  The ox-men and what they do.  May who grows into the supreme fiddler.  And the places of Neverness too have their stories told; the Bard House, the seashore caves that are scoured into different shapes, the places where the sheep are tended and the kites fly.  Characters and places are re-introduced and re-woven across the two generations of the span of Folk.Folk is spun with truly dazzling writing.  Zoe Gilbert is both gifted and inspired in her words and the architectures that they build.  Her sentences paint the world of Neverness both subtly and with a thumping pulse.  Folk is kinda sorta magical realism, but it is far more than just that genre.  Zoe Gilbert's words thump and beat viscerally, and tell of scents and temperatures and storms and winds.  The folk of Neverness live a raw life, but a life that is full of their engrained traditions and ways.There is really nothing much comparable to what Zoe Gilbert has written.  A small number of stories from a small number of contemporary writers spring to mind, but she has written something unique.There is a map of Neverness; I like maps that show the geography of the place where the storyteller is beguiling us.  Just so you know.  And, is there anything that is hard work, or does not quite work, in Folk, you might (you should really) ask?  Yes is my answer.  Because each of the folk of Neverness is written into the story I had to sometimes remind myself of who was who.  And towards the end a couple of chapters feel like filler, non-essential, just in there to get them in.  But still a masterpiece.The last chapter of Folk begins exactly as the first chapter.  The Gorse Game.  Two generations after the first chapter.  Folk have died and folk have been born, married, lived.  Neverness endures as the folk fade in and then are gone.  And what endures for this reader is the visceral magic of this author and her craft.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A haunting blend of folklore and magical realism
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018*

A haunting series of interrelated short stories tells the reader the history of the small village of Neverness and its inhabitants who experience superstition, magic, love, and sorrow. The book begins and closes with a village tradition that is their own version of Beltane, a gorse-maze, and girls who shoot arrows into the maze for the young men of the village to find and be matched for a kiss or more. As the book opens, we meet the ill-fated Crab Skerry and at its close see the fate of the girl he had wanted to kiss, Madden, whose soul is woven by a spell with that of a soaring kite.These are folktales about island folk, mixing classic British Isle fae entities like the water bull, similar to a kelpie, luring young women to a watery death, and simple people with their everyday lives on their farms and in a fishing community. Beyond the elements of familiar folklore, Gilbert has given us truly poignant characters with heartbreaking stories. Ervet and her beloved mawkins, Verlyn, a man with a wing, and his unrequited love for a girl named after a bird, Linnet. There are also images of memorable power like that of a boy named Finch, arms outstretched, covered in bees, green sap emerging from a scratch on his neck.This is a rich an beautiful series of stories that read like a novel. Blending folklore and magical realism, it's a unique book to be savored.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderfully weird
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018*

Paul Kingsnorth recommended this to his followers. He was right, it was wonderful. Full of beautiful imagery, fully realized characters, and with magical, but realistic settings, the stories felt very homely. I loved the people and I think I'd love this gorse-scented Isle.

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