PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, The Lumberjack's Dove, was selected by Louise Gl ck as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and she is the author behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads and Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog- A Story in Cootie Catchers, among other projects. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order for strangers on an antique typewriter with her team The Traveling Poetry Emporium. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery. This is her debut novel.
I have never found use for the word rollicking until I dove into Thistlefoot. This is a genuinely rollicking adventure. It rollicks very hard. It is skillfully stuffed with startling rollickers. Pick up this book and prepare to be thoroughly, comprehensively, joyfully rollicked. -Lemony Snicket
