The Girl with Glass Feet (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Carl Maulsen: He thought of himself as a success until Ida informed him otherwise
• Ida Maclaird: Add a description of this character.
• Henry Fuwa
• Emiliana Stallows
• Catherine
• Hector Stallows
• Freya
• Evaline
• Christiana
• Mr. Crook
• Midas
• Charles Maclaird
• Gustav

Quotes edit see section history

• “"It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation"”

• “There is an astrology of eyes at work in the world. Looks can align like planets..."”

• “"But light was magic, making the dull earth vivid"”

• “"As if you could terminate love abruptly because the one you loved signed papers with someone else in a church"”

• “Something Midas Crook once wrote a paper concerning, something he had discussed in his cluttered office with Carl, was the wearing of time on a person. He had written the image of a person's life like a day's clothing. Beginning with the pulling on of layers on a cold morning, then adjusted to dress and leave the house for work. The change back to casual clothes in the evening, the final stripping away as night came. Crook said each garment was one of many characters a person held in their lifetime. Carl had argued that the parable worked better if the clothes were those worn across a year, because personalities were not accrued and covered up throughout life, but shed and changed, bought and sold, many times over.”

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• “Would you believe,” he had said (and back then she had not), “there are glass bodies here, hidden in the bog water?”

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• photography wasn’t a job, a hobby or an obsession, it was simply as fundamental to his interpretation of the world as the effect of light diving in his ret i nas.

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• Memories were just photos printed on synapses.

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• The bouquet was to be delivered to Midas’s mother.

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• Back when he unearthed it from Midas Crook’s grave, the stench had made bile leap into his throat. Now Midas Crook’s glass heart shone multifaceted like a giant diamond.

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• There was something conspiratorial about flowers. He often sensed, when he was alone in a room of them, their petals whispering on a frequency beneath human hearing.

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• She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into another person at such a velocity as to fuse with him.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Enghem Stead
• Denver
• Ettinsford
• St. Hauda’s Land
• Gurmton
• Glamsgallow
• Saffron Jeuck
• Lomdendol Island

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Ali Shaw (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Costa Book Award (Finalist, 2009: First Novel, Shortlist)
• Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR6119.H387G57 2009
• Dewey: 823.92

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Contains profanity and adult content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Ali Shaw's Blog