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"Ooze and muck and the clean muddy smell of life" suffuse Billingsley's long-awaited third work of fiction, which mingles "Tam Lin," "Lord Randall," and its own swampy folklore into an entirely original concoction—and which confirms, yet again, how aptly fairy tale expresses the emotional landscape of adolescence. And more: how exceptionally well Billingsley uses it to do so. Narrator Briony Larkin is a self-proclaimed witch. She believes that out of childish jealousy of the attention Stepmother lavished on her twin si...Log In or Sign Up to Read More