Tangleweed and Brine
School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 8, Year 9
No. of pages 196
Published: 2018
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book has been graded for interest at 14 years.
There are 196 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2018 by Little Island .
Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Best Book of the Year
This book was recognised by the Best Book of the Year.
Irish Book Award - Best Book Of the Year - YA
This book was recognised in the Best Book of the Year - YA category by the Irish Book Award.
Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year - YA
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year.
Irish Times Ticket Readers' Choice - Fiction - YA
This book was recognised in the Fiction - YA category by the Irish Times Ticket Readers' Choice.
Children's Book Ireland Awards - Book Of the Year
This book was recognised in the Book of the Year category by the Children's Book Ireland Awards.
Irish Book Award - Best Irish Published Book
This book was recognised in the Best Irish Published Book category by the Irish Book Award.
'An absolute stunner of a book.'
-- Claire Hennessey * The Irish Times *
A tapestry of retellings and reimaginings, some told in beguiling second person, that foreground women - their desires, powers, fearsomeness and vulnerability ... enriched by Vaughan's sharp, intricate, Beardsleyesque illustrations.
-- Imogen Russell Williams * The Guardian *
This absolutely beautifully collection of retold fairy tales is as wonderful to read as it is to look at. Featuring lovely, feminist angles on your favourite fairy tales and beautiful full spread illustrations, it deserves a space on your shelf stat.
* Buzzfeed *
Sullivan muddies the black-and-white narratives, not only with murky endings, but with dark, dangerous, imperfect and even unhinged heroines. In doing so, she makes her fairy tales richer and more fertile, but also more adult... Her language is heavily perfumed with meaning... with its beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley's for Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, it would make a great gift for a teenager.
-- Hattie Garlick * The Times Literary Supplement *
Vaughan's artwork is captivatingly complex and disturbingly mesmeric, harking back to a previous generation of fairy-tale illustrators while significantly contributing to the synergy between this volume's words and images ... In Sullivan's enthralling renditions the feminine is inseparable from the political and the sexual ... An engrossing and terrifying work.
* Inis Magazine *
These fairy tale retellings are remarkable: they stop you in your tracks. They make you exclaim `What! What did I just read?' I turned the pages backwards as often as I turned them forwards. The inky woodcut style drawings are an added bonus from Karen Vaughan. They exactly match the text, dark and light, astonishing, flowing.
-- Hilary McKay, novelist * Achuka.co.uk (round-up, best books of 2017) *