Lud-in-the-Mist is a true classic, an adult fairy tale exploring the need to embrace what we fear and to come to terms with 'the shadows' - those sweet and dark impulses that our public selves ignore or repress. 'Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son, he realises that something is changing in Lud - and something must be done. Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist-a classic fantasy novel-in 1926. Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie, and is a great trial to Lud, which rejects anything other, preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. /rebates/2f97814732255652fLud-Mist-14732255662fplp&. Lud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple.
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