Tangleweed and Brine: YA Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards
Bewitched retellings of classic fairy-tales with brave and resilient heroines.
WINNER: Book of the Year 2018 (CBI Awards)
WINNER: YA Book of the Year 2017 (Irish Book Awards)
WINNER: Reader's Choice Award for YA Fiction 2017 (Irish Times Ticket Awards)
A multi-award winning collection of twelve dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales from one of Ireland’s leading writers for young people. In the tradition of Angela Carter, stories such as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin are given a witchy makeover. Intricately illustrated with black and white line drawings.
‘Exquisitely written and powerful – I’m enchanted by it.’ — Marian Keyes
‘Deirdre Sullivan’s writing is beguiling, bewitching and poetic. Her prose is almost dreamlike, reminiscent of Angela Carter.’ – Juno Dawson, author of The Gender Games
‘Sullivan’s prose is delicate and masterful.’ – Dave Rudden, author of Knights of the Borrowed Dark
‘Witchy, eerie and beautiful. These thirteen fairytale retellings already feel like feminist classics.’ – Claire Hennessy, author of Like Other Girls
Dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales for a teen audience – not for the faint-hearted
Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher.
Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018, Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017, and the Irish Times Ticket Reader's Choice Award for YA Fiction.
Her novel Needlework won the Honour Award for Fiction at the Children’s Books Ireland Awards in 2017.
Sullivan's Primrose Leary trilogy was also widely praised; two of the Prim books were shortlisted for the Children’s Books Ireland Awards; and the final one, Primperfect, was the first ever YA book to be shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.