ReviewEspecially enjoyable are Harris' aphorisms, her satire of joyless piety and the comically irreverant vernacular spoken by a dissolute goblin and the trickster god Loki - THE SUNDAY TIMES Harris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Her dramatic story rollocks along for 536 pages with magical transformations, nets of blue fire and a spunky heroine - THE TIMES Goblins, glams, ancient gods and subterranean adventure - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Joanne Harris deploys a big cast in relentless action across a cosmic panorama. This is a mighty feat of storytelling and a fascination re-envisionment of Norse mythology - BOOKS FOR KEEPS A fantastic romp through the world of ancient magic, which should appeal to all adventure lovers - INIS Rich, comic, dark and brilliantly conceived - READING TIMEAbout the AuthorJoanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted CHOCOLAT (made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp) and many other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born. Find out more at www.joanne-harris.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @JoannechocolatJoanne M HarrisPaperback:528 pagesISBN-10:1473217067ISBN-13:978-1473217065Product Dimensions:13 x 3.4 x 19.6 cmPublisher:Gollancz (20 April 2017)Language:English