East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon

A superbly illustrated edition of the original translation from the classic Scandinavian fairy tale. A girl is carried away by a lover trapped in the flesh of an ice bear. In her attempts to free him, she consults three hags and the four winds before travelling to a palace full of trolls. The prodigious dangers of this epic journey are painted by P J Lynch in eloquent images that sing and blaze from the page. His depiction of the heroine's flight on the shoulders of the North wind is a vertiginous vision of fragile humanity at the mercy of elemental forces. A beautiful, powerful and indispensable book. Great reading for all ages.