Flight

by Angela Slatter, Kathleen Jennings (Illustrator)

In a kingdom where magic is banned and rules abound, Princess Emer escapes to the forest. When an accursed raven pecks her hand, Emer is transformed and finds herself at the heart of a war between her mother and her aunt. Only the Crown of Feathers can set them all free, and Emer must find it and her true self along the way.

Genres: Fantasy

55 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 2021

About the author

Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards.

Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories.

She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.

Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015.

The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.

Reviews

[Magrat Ajostiernos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Francamente maravilloso como todo lo de Angela Slatter. Cuentos oscuros, retorcidos y con un giro a nuestra realidad actual, siempre con la mujer en el centro. y además con cuervos. No puedo pedir más.
Es muy cortito y quizás no de las historias más memorables de la autora, pero para mi disfrutable a más no poder.
Por cierto la edición es una joya, espectacular el trabajo de la ilustradora ♥︎

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd give this 5 stars for the art and 3 for the story, coming to 4 stars overall. I generally really like Angela Slatter's fairytale-inspired stories, but I feel the need to note that this one has a disabled/disfigured villainess whose motive is to be magically healed, which is a trope that I've seen called out as hurtful for disabled readers.

In general, the adult-fantasy-story-as-illustrated-book format is one I really enjoy. (This strikes me as falling in the same category as The Sleeper and the Spindle.) I'd love to see more books like this published.

[Ridanwise · Rating 5 out of 5]

That one magical children book you read in your infancy. Took me back to the soviet books I whole illustrations and stories I used to love.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a delightful book, it is actually a beautifully illustrated short story. Based on two fairy tales that the author has combined, well written and lovely illustrations. This is my second Angela Slatter book, both lovely editions from PS Publishing and both 4 star reads.

[Katharine (Ventureadlaxre) · Rating 5 out of 5]

The hardcover is such a gorgeous print run, and I love Kathleen's artwork and Angela's writing so dang much.