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Metro Winds

By Isobelle Carmody
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Metro Winds presents a collection of enchanting short stories by Isobelle Carmody. The tales span a world where reality and magic intertwine—a girl embarks on a quest through dark metro tunnels to find her destiny, another searches for a lost sister in an eternal winter, a young man honours a final request, a mother conjures a true princess, a man seeks closure, and an elder pursues his shadow. This world of desire and transformation showcases Carmody's mastery of modern fantasy.
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Ideal for young adult readers and fans of contemporary fantasy seeking thought-provoking, imaginative short stories filled with magic and emotional depth.

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An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia's most loved fantasy writers, and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles.

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A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a dying wish. A mother works magic to summon a true princess for her son. A man seeks an ending to his story. An old man goes in search of his shadow.

This is a world of desire and transformation, the real and the not real, from the queen of modern fantasy.

Metro Winds by Isobelle Carmody entices readers into a realm where imagination and reality intertwine.

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Courier Mail praised it as "a delicious selection of modern short-form fantasy," delivering wonder, strangeness, and charm often missing in fairy tales. Lip Magazine highlighted the "beautiful, carefully crafted imagery" in each increasingly enchanted story.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781865084442

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 400

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Isobelle Carmody Young Adult

About the Author

Isobelle Carmody is best known for her brilliant Obernewtyn Chronicles and for her novel The Gathering (joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award). She has written many short stories for both children and adults and was co-editor with Nan McNab of the fairytale anthologies, The Wilful Eye and The Wicked Wood.

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