The pelican child

Williams, Joy, 1944-2025

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Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the 'pelican child', who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs.