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Transcendence and Other Stories

By Nancy Springer
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A luminous collection of short fiction from Nancy Springer, award-winning author of the Enola Holmes mysteries, celebrating women’s lives, quiet transformations, and the strength found in everyday moments. From Nancy Springer, the award-winning author best known for the Enola Holmes mysteries, comes a moving collection of... Read More
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A luminous collection of short fiction from Nancy Springer, award-winning author of the Enola Holmes mysteries, celebrating women’s lives, quiet transformations, and the strength found in everyday moments.

From Nancy Springer, the award-winning author best known for the Enola Holmes mysteries, comes a moving collection of stories about the quiet triumphs and heartbreaks that shape everyday life.

In these pages, grief takes on unexpected colours, valleys hold their own secrets, and love appears in surprising places. Springer introduces us to unforgettable characters—women and girls, sisters and mothers—each facing moments that change them: a widow who channels her sorrow into art, a child whose kindness to a stray dog forces difficult choices, a sister fighting to protect the wild landscape she loves.

Told with the same sharp wit and compassion that made Enola Holmes a worldwide favourite, these stories reveal what it means to endure, to hope, and to find beauty even in loss. Springer captures the strength tucked inside ordinary lives, weaving tales that are tender, magical, and deeply real.

For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age stories—or for anyone who has ever yearned for a fresh start—this collection is both comforting and unforgettable.

Nancy Springer has always had a gift for seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. These stories will stay with you, echoing long after the last page is turned.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592117307

Publisher: Histria LLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 April 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Histria Fiction

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 284g

Pages: 300

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Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Nancy Springer Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About the Author

Nancy Springer (born July 5, 1948, in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author with over fifty books spanning fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. A graduate of Gettysburg College, she drew on her lifelong passion for mythology, Arthurian legend, and Sherlock Holmes to craft imaginative worlds and characters.

Her novel Larque on the Wing won the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1994, and she earned back-to-back Edgar Awards for Toughing It (1995) and Looking for Jamie Bridger (1996), as well as the Carolyn W. Field Award for I Am Mordred (1999). She is best known for The Enola Holmes Mysteries, beginning with The Case of the Missing Marquess in 2006, which became a Netflix film series starring Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill.

With a career spanning nearly four decades, Nancy Springer’s storytelling blends historical imagination, mythic richness, and emotional depth—whether reimagining legendary figures or giving life to new ones.

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