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The Song of Stork and Dromedary
Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
Anjet Daanje (born 1965)
Translated by David McKay
English editions
In EnglishThe Song of Stork and Dromedary
FSG Originals · United States · 18 August 2026 · Paperback · 736 pages
The Song of Stork and Dromedary
Scribe · Australia · 29 September 2026 · Paperback · 720 pages
The Song of Stork and Dromedary
Scribe · United Kingdom · 8 October 2026 · Hardcover · 720 pages
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Everything turns on Eliza May Drayden, an author drawn after Emily Brontë, who, gifted like her sisters, wandered the moors, wrote verse and produced one great novel. Eleven long chapters follow her and her afterlife, moving from Yorkshire in the nineteenth century to Picardy during the First World War, back to England and finally to present-day Groningen. Witnesses of every kind speak, from neighbours and scholars to admirers and those who hoard her relics, alongside rumours, letters, jottings and press cuttings. As the decades pass she recedes, surviving mainly in other women's lives as they too try to slip the bonds of religion, family, marriage and custom.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 655 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, 1840s–2010s
- First published
- 2022 by Passage
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9789054524106 (original)
9780374620615 (FSG Originals, United States)
9781761380938 (Scribe, Australia)
9781915590800 (Scribe, United Kingdom)
- More
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